booting from LVM2 in 2.6.10

[Ganga Varatharajan]

Fedora SRPM kernel-2.6.10-1.766_FC3.src.rpm, with
with All-2.6.10.diff  patches applied.


>From: Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: booting from LVM2 in 2.6.10
>Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:08:58 +0000
>
>On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 09:14 +1100, Ganga Varatharajan wrote:
> > I downloaded and compiled the 2.6.10 source, including some DVB drivers.
> >
> > My boot parition is an LVM2 partition, /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00.
> >
> > I am able to reboot from this parition under the 2.6.10-1.766FC3 kernel 
>and
> > the 2.6.9-1.667FC3 kernels. But under my 2.6.10 kernel (2.6.10-mythtv) I 
>get
> > errors with the device mapper finding any logical paritions in the LVM
> > parition.
> >
> > grub.conf reads:
> >
> > default=0
> > timeout=5
> > splashimage=(hd1,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> > hiddenmenu
> > title Windows XP
> >         rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> >         chainloader +1
> > title Fedora Core (2.6.10-mythtv)
> >         root (hd1,1)
> >         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-mythtv ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 
>rhgb
> > quiet
> >         initrd /initrd-2.6.10-mythtv.img
> > title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.766_FC3)
> >         root (hd1,1)
> >         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.766_FC3 ro 
>root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> > rhgb quiet
> >         initrd /initrd-2.6.10-1.766_FC3.img
> > title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
> >         root (hd1,1)
> >         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 
>rhgb
> > quiet
> >         initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
> >
> >
> > Do I need to build my initrd*.img with LVM2 support? I thought it is 
>already
> > provided in mkinitrd-4.1.18-2.
> >
> > Any clues would be appreciated. Thanks,
>
>Have you tried comparing the contents of the various initrds?
>
>$ gunzip -c /boot/initrd-2.6.10-1.760_FC3.img | cpio -t
>etc.
>
>When you say you downloaded and compiled the 2.6.10 source, do you mean
>the kernel.org (vanilla) source, or did you take a Fedora kernel SRPM
>and add your DVD driver patches to that? The latter approach would
>probably achieve better compatibility as it would include whatever
>patches the regular Fedora kernels have.
>
>Paul.
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>Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
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