building LVM kernels for RH

[Bruce Marshall]

On Tuesday 28 June 2005 06:08 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> Anyone here had any success building your own 2.6.x kernel from the
> pristine kernel.org source on a RH system that is using LVM (either RHEL4
> or FC3/4)?
>
> I've tried using an initrd and also compiling in support for LVM into the
> 2.6.12.1 kernel, and both times, the root filesystem can't be found on
> bootup:
> VFS: Cannot open root device "mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00" or
> unknown-block(0,0)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(0,0)
>
> Surely there has to be a way to do this without using RH's kernel?

Is this your first try with a 2.6.12.x kernel?   I've been running all of the 
2.6.11.xx kernels without any problems but the 2.6.12 (using pretty much the 
same .config) has a lot of problems for me...    My network doesn't come up 
for one thing and USB seems to be broke.

Just a thought.