[linux-lvm] Problems mounting LVM root volume

[Francis SOUYRI]

Hello Patrick,

There is not enough space ("vgscan -- ERROR 28" check the file 
"/usr/include/asm/errno.h") in the ramdisk to create the file 
"/etc/lvmtab.d/vg3.tmp"

What files did you copy to your ramdisk ?

Best regards.

Francis


Patrick van den Berg wrote:

>Hello everybody, 
>
>I'm new at using LVM and I ran into trouble using it. I've got problems 
>mounting an LVM volume as root on my system running Gentoo Linux 1.4. My 
>configuration is as follows (skip to the bottom of the text for the actual 
>error message): 
>
>Gigabyte mainboard with onboard Promise RAID. I've got 2 80GB discs attached 
>(same model) and configured as RAID1. I installed via the Gentoo RC1 Stage 1 
>CDROM. During boot of the CD I had to abort and add the "IDE0=0x9400,0x9802 
>IDE2=0x9c00,0xa002" parameters to be able to load the pdcraid module. 
>
>My fstab looks as follows: 
> 
>/dev/ataraid/disc0/part1  /boot       ext3      noauto,noatime  1  1 
>/dev/vg3/rootlv           /           reiserfs  noatime         0  0 
>/dev/ataraid/disc0/part2  none        swap      sw              0  0 
>/dev/cdroms/cdrom0        /mnt/cdrom  iso9660   noauto,ro       0  0 
>proc                      /proc       proc      defaults        0  0 
>tmpfs                     /dev/shm    tmpfs     defaults        0  0 
>
>I also compiled my kernel using the gentoo-sources, and with the following 
>options enabled: 
>
>- LVM support 
>- Built-in RAM disk support with initrd 
>- DEV fs support 
>- mount DEV filesystem at boot
>- ReiserFS support 
>
>I also ran lvmcreate_initrd with the -M option, because everything is compiled 
>in the kernel. Also, when I run lvmceate_initrd without the -M options, it 
>returns errors and the lvm image is not created. 
>
>My grub,conf (linked to menu.lst) looks as follows: 
> 
>default 0 
>timeout 30 
>splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz 
>
>title=Gentoo 1.4 GNU/Linux on Antigone 
>root (hd0,0) 
>kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/vg3/rootlv ide0=0x9400,0x9802 ide2=0x9c00,0xa002 
>initrd /boot/initrd-lvm.gz 
>
>
>When I boot the system grub starts correctly, but when grub wants to boot my 
>system the following messages appear: 
>
>Code: 
>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 
>Freeing initrd memory: 994k freed. 
>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). 
>Mounted devfs on /dev 
>vgscan -- found inactive volume group "vg3" 
>vgscan -- ERROR 28 writing volumegroup backup file /etc/lvmtab.d/vg3.tmp in 
>vg_cfgbackup.c [line273] 
>vgscan -- ERROR: "lvm_tab_vg_remove(): unlink" removing volume group "vg3" 
>from "/etc/lvmtab.d" 
>vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" succesfully created 
>vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group 
>
>vgchange -- no volume groups found 
>
>VFS: Cannot open root device "vg3/rootlv" or 00:00 
>Please append a correct "root=" boot option 
>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount rootfs on 00:00 
>
>
>Now, the strange thing is, when I boot via the CD and do vgscan and
>vgchange -ay by hand, I can mount /dev/vg3/rootlv normally! 
>
>Does anybody got any ideas? I've run out of them  
>
>Thanks for any help in advance. When you need any more info, just say so. 
>
>Regards, 
>Patrick
>
>
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