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

Thu Feb 21 00:19:03 CET 2013

'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 20/02/13 20:13 did gyre and gimble:
+> * 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.
+
+
+If you could supply debug output when generating initrd both with the
+packaged version and your patched version that would be very useful and
+may allow me to avoid having to exactly duplicate the setup!!
+
+Cheers
+
+Col
+
+
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