God, "No Volume Groups Found" !!!!

[Rick Stevens]

On 04/14/2010 08:51 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 22:42 +0800, 依和 wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm using FC8 and I download the kernel source 2.6.33.2 from
>> kernel.org and build it by myself but,  everytime I try to boot from
>> the new kernel I met the error "No Volume Groups Found".
>> I tried everything I could but failed still.
>> Would you please give me any idea?
>> Thanks in advance.
>
> Fedora 8 hasn't been supported for two years or more. Most people here
> will probably recommend you upgrade to F12 and try again. If you need
> more stability, then use RHEL or Centos.

IIRC, the kernel that came with F8 used LVM1 and the 2.6.3x kernels are
going to want LVM2 (using mapper).

See http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/lvm2faq.html for details on how to
convert over, and once you do, get F12.  F8 is long, long dead.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting          ricks at nerd.com -
- AIM/Skype: therps2        ICQ: 22643734            Yahoo: origrps2 -
-                                                                    -
-  What's small, yellow and very, VERY dangerous?  The root canary!  -
----------------------------------------------------------------------