| Kernel 028stab059.6(PAE) with RAID1 and LVM [SOLVED] [message #34153] |
Tue, 09 December 2008 11:25  |
gjanssens
Messages: 6
Registered: February 2008
|
Junior Member |
|
|
Hi,
I have setup an ovz server on which the root filesystem is on an LVM2 volume on top of a RAID1 configuration. The latest stable kernel (2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.028stab059.6) won't boot this system. It panics for not finding the root partition.
The previous kernel (2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.028stab059.3) has no problems with this.
I tried both normal and PAE kernels. The system comes with 8Gb of RAM, so I normally run PAE. I tested both to be sure the problem was not PAE related.
To me this seems like a bug creating the initrd during the new kernel install. I have searched the forum, wiki and bugzilla, but I didn't find any more info on this.
How can I solve this ?
Thank you.
[Updated on: Sun, 15 March 2009 15:36] Report message to a moderator |
|
|
|
|
|
| Re: Kernel 028stab059.6(PAE) with RAID1 and LVM [message #35282 is a reply to message #34155] |
Sun, 15 March 2009 15:35  |
gjanssens
Messages: 6
Registered: February 2008
|
Junior Member |
|
|
It took me a while but I finally found what was wrong. Following the suggestion on the bugreport I compared a working initrd with a failing one.
It turns out that on the failing one I was missing a kernel module (sata_nv). I'm not sure how it is possible this module was in the one initrd and not in the other. Both of the initrd's were automatically created during a kernel installation.
But on the other hand later plain centos kernel installs had the same problem, so it's safe to assume the problem wasn't openvz specific.
The fix: I have added an entry for sata_nv in /etc/modprobe.conf and recreated the failing initrd's.
|
|
|
|
OpenVZ Forum
Members
Search
Help
Register
Login
Home
