Re-Post: 2.6.19 kernel won't boot due to "VolGroup00" not found

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 29 December 2006 16:35, Ed Hourigan wrote:
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Ed Hourigan <ed.hourigan at gmail.com>
>Date: Dec 27, 2006 5:15 PM
>Subject: 2.6.19 kernel won't boot due to "VolGroup00" not found
>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>
>I seem to be having issues booting the 2.6.19 kernel from kernel.org.
>I have FC-6 installed and wanted to upgrade the kernel from kernel.org
>(I have done this many times before)
>When I go to boot my newly built kernel, I get a kernel panic due to:
>
>Volume Group "VolGroup00" not found
>
>When I built the kernel, I used my current kernel .config file (2.6.18
> from fc6) by doing a 'make oldconfig'.
>
>Has anyone successfully upgraded to 2.6.19 kernel from kernel.org on FC6
> ???
>
I am running 2.6.20-rc2 with the last patch from linus for file system 
corruptions while running a random access download program such as 
azureus.  But it was a full FC6 install on a separate drive, so I was 
coming from an FC2 install that did not use the LVM.  When doing it the 
first time for a new kernel from kernel.org, there were several items 
related to LVM that I had to turn on in a make xconfig run or 3 before I 
got it right, but it can be done.

The thing that really burns me is exactly how damned slow gcc-4.1.1-30 is 
on FC6 compared to the version on a fully updated FC2.  Whereas 
my ./makeit script ran to completion on FC2 useing gcc-3.4.4 in about 11 
minutes, its now, with gcc 4.1.1-30, taking around 33 minutes to build a 
kernel that's maybe 100k bigger (I don't have the old /boot partition 
mounted at the moment so that's only a SWAG) because of the LVM stuff.

How much the LVM has to do with that, I have no comparison data, but I 
suspect its very little.  However if I had it to do over again, I'm not 
sure I would enable the LVM stuff.  It is I believe, partially to blame 
for a rash of tar not staying on filesystem problems we've heard reports 
of lately on the amanda list.  Again, I have no proof, just a gut feeling 
about it, but I have not been personally bitten.  That thumping sound in 
the background is of course me, knocking my head on wood...

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