I am sure you are right, grub wont mount the lvm.
From: Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: grub.conf emptied, and now i get kernel panic?
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:34:16 -0700
I was under the impression that you can't boot from an LVM volume and
that is why /boot needed to be in its own partition - before the LVM
gets mounted.
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
Craig
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 14:16 +0000, Kahn Seidl wrote:
> well, boot is on /dev/hda2
>
> boot is on /dev/hda2 and the lvm is hda5
>
> which is what the boot is ont
>
> if i specify /boot then it wont find the kernel
>
> if I leave it as /vmlinuz
> then it works allright.
>
> but i still get a kernel panic
>
>
> martin
>
> >From: Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx,For users of Fedora Core releases
> ><fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx,For users of Fedora Core releases
> ><fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: Re: grub.conf emptied, and now i get kernel panic?
> >Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:33:57 -0500
> >
> >On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 08:17 -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 02:38:26PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 16:52 -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:41:28PM +0200, David Colomer wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > > > > > Hash: SHA1
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Kahn Seidl wrote:
> > > > > > > Somehow my grub.conf is emptied. But, what I did is put it
back
> >in the
> > > > > > > best I could from what someone else posted.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > title fc3
> > > > > > > root (hd0,2)
> > > > > > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABLE=/dev/hda2 rhgb
quiet
> > > > > > > initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
> > > > > > >
> > > > > I can't beleve no one mentioned this but the lines should be:
> > > > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABREL=/dev/hda2
rhgb
> >quiet
> > > > > initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
> > > > ----
> > > > English as a second language for some, I understand. I thought
English
> > > > was Aaron's primary language.
> > > >
> > > > LABEL #not LABLE or LABREL
> > > >
> > > > I believe the spelling is entirely significant
> > > > ----
> > > > >
> > > > > or am I going crazy.
> > > > ----
> > > You are right .. I can't spell. But my point is that the lines
should
> > > be:
> > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz...
> > > initrd /boot/initrd..
> > >
> > > Not:
> > > kernel /vmlinuz...
> > > initrd /initrd...
> > >
> > > That is the problem.
> >
> >I see 2 possibilities.
> >If there is a separate /boot partition (as I use) then the lines would
> >be
> >*********
> >title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1372_FC3)
> > root (hd0,0)
> > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> > initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3.img
> >***********
> >
> >If there is no /boot partition then the alternate form would be correct
> >
> >***********
> >title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1372_FC3)
> > root (hd0,0)
> > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> > initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3.img
> >***********
> >
> >Note, that you can use either root-LABEL=/ or root=/dev/hda2, but you
> >cannot mix the LABEL and device name in the same line.
> >
> >Also, I noted that Kahn gave the stanza
> > > title fc3
> > > root (hd0,2)
> > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABLE=/dev/hda2 rhgb quiet
> > > initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
> >which seems incorrect in one other way.
> >The second line [ root (hd0,2) ] likely does not point to /dev/hda2.
> >The way grub works that should point to the 3rd partition on the drive
> >(/dev/hda3). This would imply that /boot is in /dev/hda3 and if so then
> >having the kernel line without the /boot part would be correct.
> >
> >Only Kahn can answer that part.
> >
> >Mine which I showed above as [ root (hd0,0) ] actually points to
> >the /boot partition which is /dev/hda1. Grub starts counting partitions
> >from 0 but the partition table starts counting from 1.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > --
> > >
> > >
=======================================================================
> > > P-K4
> > > -------------------------------------------
> > > Aaron Konstam
> > > Computer Science
> > > Trinity University
> > > telephone: (210)-999-7484
> > >
> >
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