LVM not a happy camper..

WipeOut wipe_out at onetel.com
Fri Nov 14 21:20:20 UTC 2003


Joseph M Bironas wrote:

>On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 12:43, WipeOut wrote:
>  
>
>>I just tried to install a fresh system using LVM..
>>
>>6GB disk.. 100MB /boot partition and the rest in a LVM allocation.. 
>>within the LVM I created a / volume and a swap volume.. the install went 
>>fine but after restarting the system would not boot and was saying 
>>something about init=.. Not sure becasue I have started reinstalling 
>>already..
>>
>>Did I do something wrong?
>>
>>Has anyone tried LVM with Fedora?? How were you drives setup??
>>    
>>
>
>I'm using LVM and it's working well. I've created a standard boot
>partition (/boot) but root is a RAID0 metadevice spanning the remainder
>of drive one and all of drive two.
>
>What's your grub entry look like for the root partition. If you're
>getting to the init= then it's not the LVM hanging, it could be that
>it's not finding your root partition though. Full text of the last few
>lines of output you get as well as the appropriate boot entry in
>grub.conf will help (the kernel= line in specific)
>
>Regards,
>Joseph
>
I know /boot needs to be kept out of the LVM area..

Should root and swap partitions be kept out of the LVM area as well??

Thanks..





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