[Mageia-dev] System doen't boot with LVM

Wed Feb 20 21:13:02 CET 2013

* Colin Guthrie (mageia at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 20/02/13 18:13 did gyre and gimble:
+> > * Colin Guthrie (mageia at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:
+> > 
+> > Iirc I replaced for_each_host_dev_and_slaves by
+> > for_each_host_dev_and_slaves_all.
+> > 
+> > Honestly I don't understand what it change...
+> > 
+> > Hope this help.
+> 
+> Yes, that helps a lot.
+> 
+> I'm not sure why it makes a difference (considering my own setup here is
+> at least partially similar to yours), but I'll definitely dig into it more.
+> 
+> Can you describe the LVM setup? i.e. how the lvm sits on top of the
+> physical disks etc? I really want to try and reproduce the issue so I
+> can make a good upstream explanation of the problem with the patch.
+
+Sure, my disk is a SSD:
+
+   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
+   /dev/sda1              63       80324       40131   de  Dell Utility
+   /dev/sda2   *       81920     1622015      770048    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
+   /dev/sda3         1622016   124499967    61438976    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
+   /dev/sda4       124502016   500105215   187801600    5  Extended
+   /dev/sda5       124506112   125547974      520931+  83  Linux
+   /dev/sda6       125550592   500103449   187276429   8e  Linux LVM
+
+
+/dev/sda5 = /boot
+
+/dev/sda6 = the whole lvm
+
+[root at localhost foo]# lvs
+  LV    VG          Attr      LSize   Pool Origin Data%  Move Log Copy% Convert
+    crypt sagittarius -wi-ao--- 141,01g                                           
+    root  sagittarius -wi-ao---  12,77g                                           
+    swap  sagittarius -wi-ao---   3,91g                                           
+    tmp   sagittarius -wi-ao---   3,00g                                           
+    var   sagittarius -wi-ao---   1,95g
+
+the "crypt" lv is my /home:
+
+/dev/mapper/crypt_sagittarius_crypt on /home type ext4 (rw,noatime,commit=600,data=ordered)
+
+Don't hesitate if you need more output, especially device and dm number.
+
+I can produce debug output of dracut too if necessary.
+
+Regards.
+
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
+♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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