[K12OSN] wierd happenings when updating server

[rmcdaniel at indata.us]

Thanks for the info.  I used to do it that way, but decided to allow it
auto create.  I believe that I will manually create the partitioning.




Ronald R. McDaniel
Conecuh County Schools
(251) 578-7073 x26
(251) 230-0658 cell
rmcdaniel at indata.us


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] wierd happenings when updating server
> From: Petre Scheie <petre at maltzen.net>
> Date: Fri, October 21, 2005 11:51 am
> To: "Support list for opensource software in schools."
> <k12osn at redhat.com>
> 
> This isn't necessarily a good solution, but when you install, you may want to do the 
> disk partitioning yourself and not use LVM.  The RH/FC installer defaults to using LVM. 
>   You give up the ability to merge multiple disks into one volume, but today's disks are 
> so huge that giving that up isn't much of a loss.  The benefits are that 1) you avoid 
> the problem you're having; if a partition goes bad, say /boot, you can boot a Knoppix 
> disk and mount the root partition from the damaged disk and still recover your data. 
> With LVM, that kind of rescue becomes much more difficult if not impossible.
> 
> Ironically, for years I complained about Linux not having logical volumes; Novell had 
> them 15+ years ago.  Then, when RH started making it part of its stock install, I 
> decided that LVM presents to great of a risk, and now I do my partitioning manually, 
> creating just plain-vanilla ext3 partitions.
> 
> Petre
> 
> rmcdaniel at indata.us wrote:
> > I am loading LTSP 4.4.1 complete install on an HP server with dual zeon
> > and 4 MB memory.  It runs fine and reboots OK until I do a YUM update. 
> > All of the 200 and something packages seem to update fine.  I run a YUM
> > update again just to make sure.  When I reboot, I get a ""unable to
> > find VolGroup01"  then followed by a "kernel panic - not syncing" and
> > the machine never boots up.  This only happens when I do a complete
> > install and then run the updates.  I can just install LTSP package, run
> > updates and everything works fine.  Any ideas.  I thought that it was a
> > problem with a RAID setting, so I removed all of the drives and just
> > have 1 36GB SCSI drive installed.
> > 
> > This is not in production, no need to drop everything and help.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Ron
> > 
> > 
> > Ronald R. McDaniel
> > Conecuh County Schools
> > (251) 578-7073 x26
> > (251) 230-0658 cell
> > rmcdaniel at indata.us
> > 
> > 
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