From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.wa.amnet.net.au (smtp1.wa.amnet.net.au [203.161.124.50]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC76E10982 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:06:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp1.wa.amnet.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40C9C7DA0C for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:06:48 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp1.wa.amnet.net.au Received: from smtp1.wa.amnet.net.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp1.wa.amnet.net.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id H-LS8UYh2xUt for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:06:45 +0800 (WST) Received: from gotss1.gotss.net (203.161.101.89.static.amnet.net.au [203.161.101.89]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp1.wa.amnet.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4692B7D808 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:06:45 +0800 (WST) Received: from bouncy.gotss.net ([192.168.24.37] helo=bouncy) by gotss1.gotss.net with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KpLG8-0000YX-5b for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:06:44 +0800 Message-ID: <0EDF8D2F58BA45B2A3D247D10E821695@bouncy> From: "Kerry Hoath" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <48F1C5A4.3010506@baechler.net><11D1CA4224254C1DB46E8E3060BBBAC5@bouncy> <48F31A67.8020507@baechler.net> Subject: Re: Debian, lilo and LVM won't boot Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:06:47 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:06:02 -0000 Perhaps the people on irc.freenote.net or similar can help; I use mkinitramfs to generate my initial ram disks and you need devmapper support in the kernel you're trying to boot lvm on. Perhaps the speakup kernel is badly configured no idea. Regards, Kerry. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Baechler" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 5:52 PM Subject: Re: Debian, lilo and LVM won't boot Kerry Hoath wrote: > You need to rebuild the initrd with update-initrams I believe it is called > so it knows about the lvm setup. > You also need to edit the configuration files for > mkinitramfs so it includes all modules including lvm. > I did, several times. Unfortunately, I can't boot to the correct 2.6.25-2-686 kernel because that is on the second drive and the initramfs won't boot, so the only way I can get to my system is with the rescue CD with a custom kernel. I've ran update-initramfs several times and it complains that it can't find /proc/modules. Of course it can't, /proc isn't mounted but I don't think it would matter because the modules are for the wrong kernel anyway. The rescue CD has xfs, lvm and such built in, not loaded as modules, so I don't think that /proc/modules from that kernel would be correct. I've verified that these things are built-in with lsmod. Also, even when it builds an image, it's slightly bigger than my old backups as one would expect, but it still seems to make no difference. After it updates, it runs lilo and lilo gives no errors or warnings but still no boot. I usually run this command: update-initramfs -u I had to use -t at one point because it said I had a custom initramfs when I know I didn't. I could try -c and have it make a new one from scratch but see above about running different kernels. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup