Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: kernel/initrd and rootfs over LVM | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:56:16 -0400 |
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:44:25 -0300, Flavio Bruno Leitner <fbl@conectiva.com.br> said: > > I'm using kernel 2.6.0-test7 and as far I understand > prepare_namespace() checks if saved_root_name[0] is > not null (I'm passing root=/dev/vg0/lvroot), then > name_to_dev_t() try to guess what MINOR and MAJOR > are used by the root device.
What I ended up doing to get that working back in the 2.5.4x days was to have my initrd's linuxrc do a 'lvm vgscan' to get the volume group online, and then an 'lvdisplay' - this of course wedged up after it since there wasn't a proper root=, but it revealed the numbers I needed.
As far as I can tell, if you're using the device-mapper in 2.6, you'll want MAJOR=, and then the MINOR= seems to be stable across 2.4/2.6/lvm1/lvm2 (So if you're building the system under 2.4 and have LVM running there, you can get the minor number from lvdisplay there, and use it with major=254 to get your 2.6 up and running. For lilo, I ended up using this:
root=65029 # magic number is major=254 * 256 + minor=5
Grub you're on your own. Yes, I should upgrade, but lilo *does* work for this machine, sooo. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |