AW: Logical Volumes on virtual drives

[Schulz, Reiner]

We use this disk_config file for Debian on vmware:
And we have to install "lvm2" and "grub-pc" in packages_config.

# example of new config file for setup-storage
#
# <type> <mountpoint> <size>   <fs type> <mount options> <misc options>

disk_config sda align-at:1024K disklabel:msdos bootable:1 fstabkey:label
primary         -       100%    -       -

disk_config sdb align-at:1024K
primary         -       100%    -       -

disk_config sdc align-at:1024K
primary         -       100%    -       -

disk_config lvm fstabkey:label
vg      vgsys   sda1,sdb1,sdc1
vgsys-swap              swap    2048    swap    sw
vgsys-root              /       5G      ext4    defaults
vgsys-home              /home   50      ext4    defaults
vgsys-mydata            -       50      ext4    -
vgsys-mybackup          -       20      ext4    -
vgsys-pgdata            -       20      ext4    -
vgsys-pgbackup          -       20      ext4    -
vgsys-srv               /srv    20      ext4    defaults
vgsys-var               /var    1G-90%  ext4    defaults

Reiner Schulz

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: linux-fai [mailto:linux-fai-bounces at uni-koeln.de] Im Auftrag von Ronald Steele
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. April 2016 20:37
> An: fully automatic installation for Linux <linux-fai at uni-koeln.de>
> Betreff: Logical Volumes on virtual drives
> 
> I’m trying to set up LV on virtual drives.  This may seem a bit weird, but it for a test
> rig.
> Is this something that is supported?  I’ve tried CentOS and Debian on VmWare and
> VirtualBox and it doesn’t appear to work on either.
> Besides some set ups of my own I’ve tried the LVM example in FAI distro and one
> from the setup-installation section of the Wiki.
> The install works but when I reboot the new system I get errors like this:
> 
> Loading, please wait…
> Gave up waiting for root device.
> 
> Then a list of common problems.
> Then:
> 
> ALERT! /dev/mapper/my_pv-_root does not exist dropping into shell
> 
> 
> 
> 
> And then I get the initramfs prompt
> 
> I’ve no idea what /dev/mapper etc is or does.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Ron