FC3 can't find LVM volumes, boot fails, kernel panics

[Fred Skrotzki]

sounds like my problem.  when booting use the non SMP kernel (single proc mode) ands see if that works.  I have problems if / is in ext3 using server class dual P4 box.

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Deron Meranda 
	Sent: Thu 12/2/2004 5:50 PM 
	To: For users of Fedora Core releases 
	Cc: 
	Subject: FC3 can't find LVM volumes, boot fails, kernel panics
	
	

	I posted this a while back with no responses.  I have more information
	now as well...
	
	I upgraded a box from FC2 to FC3.  Upon boot, grub starts, the kernel gets
	uncompressed, and it dies while trying to find the LVM volumes (actually the
	mount of / fails and the kernel panics).  Booting from the rescue CD is able to
	find the disks, volumes, etc. and all the logical volumes and filesystems are
	intact.  vgscan, vgdisplay, pvdisplay, etc. all find everything and seem happy.
	
	There is one volume group (named "vg00") and several logical volumes,
	across two physical volumes (both scsi disks).  Everything except for the
	/boot filesystem is on a logical volume.
	
	So this sounds like a messed up initrd or something.  How do I recreate
	that from the rescue shell?
	
	-- original post with the details --
	This is Dell PowerEdge 2650 (dual Xeon) with the latest BIOS version.
	It was running FC2 fine.  I upgraded to FC3 and after the first reboot it
	failed to start the kernel.  It looks like it is having trouble
	reading or mounting
	the filesystems.  The upgrade process itself went flawlessly.  Also it was
	initially installed/built with FC2, and no non-Fedora software had
	ever been loaded on it.
	
	For information this system has built-in hardware SCSI RAID (Perc).
	Except for the /boot partition, the whole logical disc was set up to use LVM.
	All filesystems within the LVM group were ext3.  I've tried booting
	with both the SMP kernel as well as the single-processor kernel, with
	the same results.  This is what appears during the initial boot text
	(I copied this off the screen manually, so there may be typos)....
	
	++++++++BEGIN+++++++
	Booting Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667smp)
	root (hd0,1)
	 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9=1.667smp ro root=/dev/vg00/lvol00 rhgb quiet
	 [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x14d2a0]
	initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667smp.img
	 [Linux-initrd @ 0x37ee5000, 0x10ab88 bytes]
	
	Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
	audit(1101329215.035:0): initialized
	Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting
	  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
	  No volume groups found
	  No volume groups found
	  No volume groups found
	mount: error 6 mounting ext3
	mount: error 2 mounting none
	switchroot: mount failed: 22
	umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
	Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
	+++++++++END++++++++
	
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	Deron Meranda
	
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