Dean S. Messing wrote: > I'm having the devil of a time trying to boot off > an "LVM-on-RAID0" device. > > I've created a software RAID-0, defined a Volume Group on in with > (currently) a single logical volume, and copied my entire > installation onto it, modifying the copied fstab to reflect where > the new "/" is. > > I created a new initrd with: > > mkinitrd --preload raid0 --with=raid0 initrd_raid.img 2.6.22.5-76-fc7 > > Note: the LVM modules are getting included in the initrd "for free" > because I'm currently running on a non-raid LV-managed file system. > > I added a stanza to grub.conf for the new initrd.img. > > But the thing won't boot. From the boot messages it appears to not > be starting the array, so when it goes to scan for LVs it doesn't > find the one that's sitting on top of the array where root lives. > > Are there instructions for how to make this work? I've googled for > a couple of hours, tried a bunch of stuff, but can't get it to > work. From what I've read I suspect I must hand-tweek the "init" > file in the initrd. > > Surely there is "a right way" to do this. Are you saying that your /boot partition is on LVM? I'm not certain if things have changed in F7 but previously that was not possible. -- Imagine what we can imagine! -- Arthur Rubinstein
