[linux-lvm] Problem with LVM root

Thu May 17 23:52:54 UTC 2001

I'm having a problem with LVM root.  I have a feeling that it might be
something simple that I'm missing, but I'm not sure.  I'm running Debain
2.2r3 updated properly to run the 2.4.4 kernel.  I've patched to LVM beta7
and also upgraded my tools.

I hacked the lvmcreate_initrd script a little bit to include dmesg and
such as well as putting the line '/bin/bash' at the end of linuxrc to give
me a shell to work with.

Pretty much everything is compiled monolithically into the kernel.  The
first file is the dmesg output right after mounting of the initrd.  The
2nd file is the output of the linuxrc file with verbosity turned
on.  After linuxrc completes it drops me to a shell (I set it to do
that) so I could save the two files.  I then mounted the LV just fine
(mount -t reiserfs /dev/sys/root /proc) [after /proc was unmounted] and
saved the two files.  I then unmounted the LV and exited the shell which
then continues on with the kernel boot.  The picture is a screenshot of
what happens next.  (If people want, I can transcribe it to text.)  The
kernel complains about various things, including some lvm stuff, mounts
the lv as reiserfs, frees memory and then hangs, nothing happens further.

Thanks for any help you can give.

-- 
Mo Katz  --  mokatz at radio.cwru.edu
Webcasting Director, WRUW-FM 91.1
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Linux version 2.4.4 (root at moshe) (gcc version 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)) #4 Wed May 16 23:57:03 EDT 2001
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000006000000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 24576
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 20480 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=3a00 BOOT_FILE=/vmlinuz ramdisk_size=8192
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 166.196 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 331.77 BogoMIPS
Memory: 92868k/98304k available (1344k kernel code, 5048k reserved, 480k data, 212k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After generic, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 0c
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb91, last bus=0
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: Calling quirk for 01:00
isapnp: SB audio device quirk - increasing port range
isapnp: Calling quirk for 01:02
isapnp: AWE32 quirk - adding two ports
isapnp: Card 'Creative SB AWE32 PnP'
isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.14)
Starting kswapd v1.8
Winbond Super-IO detection, now testing ports 3F0,370,250,4E,2E ...
SMSC Super-IO detection, now testing Ports 2F0, 370 ...
SMSC chip at EFER=0x3f0 key=0x55 devid=03 devrev=00
SMSC unknown chip type
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
block: queued sectors max/low 61589kB/20529kB, 192 slots per queue
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX3: chipset revision 0
PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: Maxtor 87000D8, ATA DISK drive
hdb: CD-ROM CDR-C3G, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: Maxtor 87000D8, ATA DISK drive
hdd: QUANTUM FIREBALL lct10 6.8A, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 13678880 sectors (7004 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=851/255/63, (U)DMA
hdc: 13678880 sectors (7004 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=14475/15/63, (U)DMA
hdd: 13379310 sectors (6850 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=14158/15/63, (U)DMA
hdb: ATAPI 4X CD-ROM changer w/3 slots, 256kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
 hdc: hdc1 hdc2
 hdd: hdd1
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 929k freed
NTFS version 010116
udf: registering filesystem
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Serial driver version 5.05a (2001-03-20) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ DETECT_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d
Non-volatile memory driver v1.1
Software Watchdog Timer: 0.05, timer margin: 60 sec
Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.14e (April 20, 2001)
00:12.0:  MII transceiver #1 config 3000 status 7809 advertising 01e1.
eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0xe800, 00:A0:CC:60:09:71, IRQ 7.
eth1: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0xec00, 00:00:78:02:13:DD, IRQ 9.
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
sb: Creative SB AWE32 PnP detected
sb: ISAPnP reports 'Creative SB AWE32 PnP' at i/o 0x220, irq 5, dma 1, 5
<Sound Blaster 16 (4.13)> at 0x220 irq 5 dma 1,5
<Sound Blaster 16> at 0x330 irq 5 dma 0,0
sb: 1 Soundblaster PnP card(s) found.
ISAPnP reports AWE32 WaveTable at i/o 0x620
<SoundBlaster EMU8000 (RAM8192k)>
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xef80, IRQ 10
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
LVM version 0.9.1_beta7  by Heinz Mauelshagen  (10/04/2001)
lvm -- Driver successfully initialized
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: AppleTalk 0.18a for Linux NET4.0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
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proc on /proc type proc (rw)
vgscan -- removing "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d"
vgscan -- creating empty "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d"
vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
vgscan -- scanning for all active volume group(s) first
vgscan -- found inactive volume group "sys"
vgscan -- reading data of volume group "sys" from physical volume(s)
vgscan -- inserting "sys" into lvmtab
vgscan -- backing up volume group "sys"
vgscan -- checking volume group name "sys"
vgscan -- checking volume group consistency of "sys"
vgscan -- checking existence of "/etc/lvmtab.d"
vgscan -- storing volume group data of "sys" in "/etc/lvmtab.d/sys.tmp"
vgscan -- storing physical volume data of "sys" in "/etc/lvmtab.d/sys.tmp"
vgscan -- storing logical volume data of volume group "sys" in "/etc/lvmtab.d/sys.tmp"
vgscan -- renaming "/etc/lvmtab.d/sys.tmp" to "/etc/lvmtab.d/sys"
vgscan -- removing special files and directory for volume group "sys"
vgscan -- creating directory and group character special file for "sys"
vgscan -- creating block device special files for sys
vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created
vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group

vgchange -- locking logical volume manager
vgchange -- finding all volume group(s)
vgchange -- checking volume group name "sys"
vgchange -- checking existence of volume group "sys"
vgchange -- reading volume group data for "sys" from lvmtab
vgchange -- checking volume group consistency  of "sys"
vgchange -- checking if all physical volumes of volume group "sys" are available
vgchange -- creating VGDA for "sys" in kernel
vgchange -- volume group "sys" successfully activated

vgchange -- unlocking logical volume manager
proc umounted
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