[Xen-users] RE: DomU boot fails with can't find root on Fedora 6

["Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ligesh [mailto:myself@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 31 January 2007 15:41
> To: Petersson, Mats
> Cc: Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: DomU boot fails with can't find root on Fedora 6
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> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 04:02:58PM +0100, Petersson, Mats wrote:
> > You could try adding "--omit-lvm-modules" to your mkinitrd 
> line - that
> > should make it not include any of the LVM stuff that would 
> be part of
> > your initrd when building on a LVM-based system. [I found 
> that by "cat
> > /sbin/mkinitrd|grep -i lvm", I haven't tried it, so it IS 
> guess-work - I
> > don't use LVM, so it would take me longer to set that up and make it
> > work than it would take you to build a new initrd and try 
> it, I'm pretty
> > sure]. 
> 
>  I tried that, but it would seem that while it removes the 
> lvm modules from the initrd, it doesn't remove the 'lvm' 
> based commands from the 'init' inside the initrd, and hence I 
> am getting the same error. On a side note, it seems rpm will 
> segfault if the package size is slightly large (35MB). Aren't 
> there any stable software out there? :-) 

I'm sure I have installed packages larger than 35MB with rpm. But of
course, Fedora is a "bleeding edge" distribution that contains a lot of
"newest" version of things, so that may be why it's broken there.. I use
FC4 and haven't noticed RPM being broken - are you sure it's not a
broken package (which shouldn't crash the app either, but we all know
that it's VERY hard to test EVERYTHING everywhere). 

Try giving mkinitrd a different fstab that contains no reference to LVM
in the root disk... (--fstab=file)

--
Mats

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Mats
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