I believe I have solved my LVM booting problem with the kernel not finding the
root filesystem.
# Start the udev daemon to continually watch for, and act on,
# uevents
/sbin/udevd --daemon
# Now traverse /sys in order to coldplug devices that have
# already been
Baho Utot wrote:
Am I correct in believeing that the root filesystem is mounted from
the /etc/rc./init.d/mountfs script?
No. It must be mounted in the initramfs or the kernel itself, usually
readonly.
If so is it permissable to remove the part that mounts the root filesystem?
Does LFS
On Sunday 29 January 2012 07:05:17 pm Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Baho Utot wrote:
Am I correct in believeing that the root filesystem is mounted from
the /etc/rc./init.d/mountfs script?
No. It must be mounted in the initramfs or the kernel itself, usually
readonly.
That is working in the
Baho Utot wrote:
For me it is ever try to manage 16 regular partitions?
How about two regular partitions: / and /boot, and lvm for everything else.
And yes, I do manage 16 regular partitions:
$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track,
On Sunday 29 January 2012 08:08:58 pm Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Baho Utot wrote:
For me it is ever try to manage 16 regular partitions?
How about two regular partitions: / and /boot, and lvm for everything else.
And yes, I do manage 16 regular partitions:
$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk
Baho Utot wrote:
What I do is to create a new lvm partition for the system under test. . .
Then bend break and mutilate as necessary. After I am done and it is no
longer needed...just remove it from the grub menu and lvm and I am done.
every thing is clean. What if from your list above I
Qrux wrote:
If you're not testing kernel operations that handle bare-metal (e.g.,
physical hardware drivers), you can do FS-related testing (or
anything higher-level than the FS) even more easily (from a
disk-space perspective) with VMs.
Wait for it. Hopefully later tonight in BLFS.
The
On Jan 29, 2012, at 7:04 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Qrux wrote:
If you're not testing kernel operations that handle bare-metal (e.g.,
physical hardware drivers), you can do FS-related testing (or
anything higher-level than the FS) even more easily (from a
disk-space perspective) with VMs.
