FAI with LVM

James james at nttmcl.com
Mon Jan 21 20:20:11 CET 2008


Carsten Aulbert wrote:
>
>
> James wrote:
>
>> Oh also on top of the error i pass the entire installation and get 
>> the following as well.
>> I boot into the new installation and it searches for ROOT filesystem 
>> but fails.
>>
>> Error =
>>
>>            Check root=bootarg cat /proc/cmdline
>>            or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
>> ALERT! /dev/mapper/lvmtest-root does not exist. dropping to shell!
>>
> Blind guess: You are booting a kernel which is not LVM aware? I.e. you 
> are using an initrd without LVM support.
>
> HTH
>
> Carsten
ok yeah i guess i installed the required pre-req packages in the wrong 
place of the nfsroot.
My bad.

Thanks much.
-James


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