building LVM kernels for RH

[Net Llama!]

On 06/28/2005 05:55 PM, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> 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.

No, i've built 2.6.12.x before, just not with LVM.

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
L. Friedman                       	       netllama at linux-sxs.org
LlamaLand		 		http://netllama.linux-sxs.org

  18:55:02 up 78 days,  5:13,  2 users,  load average: 0.13, 0.03, 0.01