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#1 2006-11-18 19:44:21

osigen
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RAID5 system boots only with ... [SOLVED]

RAID5 system boots only with fallback kernel and always the LVM2 has complaints!

Following installation from the latest 0.7.2 tpowa iso (using the 2.6.18 kernel, Nov. 4 2006 iso), I'm having problems getting my LVM volumes being recognised on booting.

Booting with default kernel always hang up with the following:

Kinit : Cannot open root device md0(9,0)
Kinit: Init not found!
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! 

menu.1st has similar entries for default and fallback (sure initrd is different for fallback)
The USELVM="yes" option is set in /etc/rc.conf, and /etc/fstab is OK.
mkinitcpio has RAID hook.

Booting with fallback kernel always reports the following:

The error message on boot following the Activating LVM2 Groups" message is:
"/proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found. Is device-mapper missing from the kernel?".

Ironically, logging on to the system then allows the partitions to be recognised and mounted by manually running:

modprobe dm-mod
vgchange -ay array
mount -a

or adding dm_mod to rc.conf's modules array.

I don't understand why it works at this stage but not on boot.
I post in Kernel section but I consider it as a bug.

Any help would be appreciated as this has taken up much time and obviously the system is still not properly functional.


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#2 2006-11-18 20:34:31

chrismortimore
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Re: RAID5 system boots only with ... [SOLVED]

Do you have "lvm2" in your mkinitcpio hooks?


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#3 2006-11-18 21:04:42

osigen
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Re: RAID5 system boots only with ... [SOLVED]

chrismortimore wrote:

Do you have "lvm2" in your mkinitcpio hooks?

I have tried mkinitcpio with LVM2 hook and/or without LVM2 :-)
Nothing corrected


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#4 2006-11-18 21:27:18

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Re: RAID5 system boots only with ... [SOLVED]

Can you post the output of

cat /etc/mkinitcpio.conf | grep -e '^[^#]'

Your /etc/fstab would be handy as well.


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#5 2006-11-18 22:04:30

osigen
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Re: RAID5 system boots only with ... [SOLVED]

cat /etc/mkinitcpio.conf | grep -e '^[^#]'

MODULES=""
BINARIES=""
FILES=""
HOOKS="base udev autodetect ide scsi sata raid filesystems lvm2"

cat /etc/fstab

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0
/dev/cdrom             /mnt/cd   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd               /mnt/dvd  udf       ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
# /dev/fd0               /mnt/fl   vfat      user,noauto             0      0
/dev/md0               /         reiserfs  defaults                0      0
/dev/md1               /boot     reiserfs  defaults                0      0
/dev/md2               swap      swap      defaults                0      0
/dev/array/home           /home     reiserfs  defaults                0      0
/dev/array/dbdata         /dbdata   reiserfs  defaults                0      0
/dev/array/video          /video    reiserfs  defaults                0      0
/dev/array/backup         /backup   reiserfs  defaults                0      0
/dev/array/iso            /iso      reiserfs  defaults                0      0


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#6 2006-11-18 22:14:53

chrismortimore
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Re: RAID5 system boots only with ... [SOLVED]

Try HOOKS="base udev autodetect ide scsi sata lvm2 raid filesystems"


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#7 2006-11-18 22:38:42

osigen
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Re: RAID5 system boots only with ... [SOLVED]

NO progress :-(


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#8 2006-11-19 10:12:59

osigen
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Re: RAID5 system boots only with ... [SOLVED]

SOLVED
I add RAID1 and RAID456 in mkinitcpio.conf modules
and the new kernel26 boots!


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#9 2006-12-29 22:24:04

WiLLiE
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Re: RAID5 system boots only with ... [SOLVED]

Thank you!
That solved my problem as well.

The wiki should probably be updated so the next person saves a few hours of trial and error.

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