[linux-lvm] 2.4.4ac17 + LVM-0.9.1beta7: Oops on unmount initrd

[Patrick Caulfield]

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 05:01:08PM +0300, Ville Herva wrote:
> Whenever I try to boot with root on LVM (using initrd), I get an oops. The
> oops happens right after (trying to) unmount old (initrd) root. It also
> happens when I run it with root=/dev/sdb (which is a plain ext2fs with no
> LVM involved, other than the lvmcreate_initrd-generated initrd).
> 
> I patched 2.4.4ac17 with LVM-0.9.1beta7; (the generated patch applied clean
> other than that I had to add int get_hardblocksize(kdev_t) {} to fs/buffer.c
> (seems to have been removed somewhere between 2.4.1 and 2.4.4). I also tried
> 2.4.4ac17 vanilla and 2.4.4ac15 vanilla with the same results.

Adding the function like that is not a good idea - it will return rubbish as the
hard block size. Change the name from get_hardblocksize() to 
get_hardsect_size() in lvm.c and recompile it.


patrick