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From: Herbert Poetzl (herbert_at_13thfloor.at)
Date: Fri 12 Aug 2005 - 02:03:04 BST


On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 05:52:41PM -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
>
> > > Unable to find device-mapper major/minor
> > > Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while.
> >
> > sounds like either you are using lvm1 or you
> > somehow forced fixed major/minor for device mapper,
> > which are not available any longer (i.e. used by
> > other devices) ...
>
> Hum. The lvm sounds like the problem.

if you are using fixed major/minor you can remove
them with the lvchange --persistent n option ...
(see the --help for more details)

> > > ...
> >
> > ah, here is the important part ... unfortunately
> > it seems that your mailer did cut it out :/
>
> Not I was too lazy to type it in. Here is the rest.
>
> No volume groups found

hmm, this could also point to the real scsi
hardware not being detected properly ... a
complete bootup log could shed some light on
it ...

> umount /sys failed: 16
> mount: error 19 mounting ext3
> mount: error 2 mounting none
> switchroot: mount failed: 22
> umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
>
> > > Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempting to kill init
> >
> > result of kernel not being able to find your root
> > device, which can actually have many causes ...
>
> Been ther done that lots of tee-shirts.
>
> > > I did not make any changes during make menuconfig -- accepting the
> > > defaults. Any ideas as to what I missed?
> >
> > maybe a lot .. don't you have an existing, well
> > tuned config for your server? if not, a .config
> > file would be helpful here ...
>
> The old .config would have been for vs1.9.4. This Ok?

should be fine, copy it over into the new kernel
tree (as .config) and run 'make oldconfig' ...
the script will ask you for new options, in case
of doubt, use the default ...

> (Do you ever get sleep? It must be after midnight in Austria and you
> were answering questions early this AM. :-)

yeah, well, some things I can answer in my sleep :)

> I'm going to look at the lvm settings and try my other working .config
> later tonight or tomorrow AM.

k, let me know how it goes ...

best,
Herbert

> Thanks for the ideas,
> Rod
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