On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:58:23AM -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 08:36, Neal D. Becker wrote:
> Cool!
>
> So, how do I use it? I currently have fedora1 installed on lvm1/raid
> (stripped). Boot is ext3, but root is lvm1.
>
> Is there a way to run 2.5 directly, or do I need to backup and re-install?
There's not an easy way to transition yet -- I need to add support to
mkinitrd to realize that you are using LVM and are moving to a 2.6
kernel. It's just going to require a little bit of restructuring to do
so. I'm traveling this week, but will hopefully manage to get it done
anyway.
You should be able to do it by hand if you have all of the packages
(including the mkinitrd Arjan just put up there) and then edit
/sbin/mkinitrd so that it forces root_lvm2 to be 1 :)
I tried this on my FC1 system with a lvm rootfs, challenges were:
1. lvm2 conflicts with lvm; I gave up and copy and pasted the stuff
into the initrd to get a kernel which booted into rc.sysinit
2. rc.sysinit fails in fsck unable to find the device:
fsck.ext3: No such device or address while trying to open /dev/mainvg/rootfs
Possibly non-existent or swap device?
I wasn't sure how to fix that (initscripts-4.73).
(doing a telinit 2 from the "repair" shell brought the system up okish)
joe