Hi Thomas's advice did help to make sure that the SCSI drivers were loaded when the Ramdisk loaded. However now I get the following error: Mounting root filesystem Mount: error 6 mounting ext3 pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 umount /initrd/proc failed: 2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 120k freed Kernel pani: No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel. Any ideas what this about? -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Munck Steenholdt [mailto:tmus@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 04 December 2003 10:51 To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: LVM > Hi Everyone > > I have a old IBM server 320. I need to create a volume group as there is > not > enough space to perform upgrades etc. > As I can only only do a text install and you cannot create Logical Volumes > in the text install, i have installed the OS on one of the 2 gig drives in > the machine. I then go about trying to create an LVM etc. (Please remember > that these are SCSI drives) > I manage to create a volume group on the remaining 2 drives and then > create > a logical volume on these. I then mount this as an ext3 and copy the > entire > os over using find / -xdev | cpio -pvmd /mnt > This all works fine. I then run lvmcreate_initrd to create a new ramdisk. > I > go to my boot which is on a different partition and edit grub.conf so that > it reflects the ramdisk and i change the kernel parameter to point to the > logical volume ie. /dev/vg1/root > I also edit the fstab so that the /dev/vg1/root is mounted as /. > I then reboot and get the following error: > vgscan -- no volume groups found > VFS: Cannot open root device "vg1/root" or 00:00 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic > > When I boot this ramdisk I don't see it loading the SCSI modules anywhere. > I'm sure this has something to do with this. How does the ramdisk store > the > modules for this? > > Please help. This is very frustrating and very urgent. I am not sure what > I'm doing wrong. > > Thanks > Brendon > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________ > > > The views expressed in this email are, unless otherwise stated, those of > the author and not those > of the FirstRand Banking Group or its management. The information in this > e-mail is confidential > and is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this e-mail by anyone > else is unauthorised. > If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, > distribution or any action taken or > omitted in reliance on this, is prohibited and may be unlawful. > Whilst all reasonable steps are taken to ensure the accuracy and integrity > of information and data > transmitted electronically and to preserve the confidentiality thereof, no > liability or > responsibility whatsoever is accepted if information or data is, for > whatever reason, corrupted > or does not reach its intended destination. > Try to add 'alias block-major-58 lvm-mod' and 'alias char-major-109 lvm-mod' to your modules.conf then mkinitrd /boot/initrd-KERNELVER.img KERNELVER --with=lvm-mod That should make sure that both LVM and any SCSI module gets loaded at boot time... I can't tell you for sure that this will fix your problem, but I would say its a good place to start! Hope this helps Thomas -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ The views expressed in this email are, unless otherwise stated, those of the author and not those of the FirstRand Banking Group or its management. The information in this e-mail is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this e-mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted in reliance on this, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Whilst all reasonable steps are taken to ensure the accuracy and integrity of information and data transmitted electronically and to preserve the confidentiality thereof, no liability or responsibility whatsoever is accepted if information or data is, for whatever reason, corrupted or does not reach its intended destination. ________________________________
