Hi LVM experts,

I need your help again, becuase I got an error message during booting and I couldn´t find out the reason. I went through several times on the archives but there is not exactly the answer I need. To make your help easier and included lilo.conf, fstab, raidtab file, and df -k result, too.

First of all the error message at boot time is:

VFS: Cannot open root device "3a00" or 3a:00 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel Panic: Unable to mount root fs on 3a:00 My intention is to mirror every device using Linux software RAID, plus use LVM on top of them. This is the point where we couldn´t find exact documentation in either the Software RAID HowTO, or the LVM How-To. We have the following configuration, including a brief summary about the steps which we preformed. I've got a system with four SCSI disks and I use Adaptec SCSI adapter. I use LILO as the bootloader. We installed Suse 7.1 with Kernel 2.4.0 (LVM and RAID support in the kernel not as module) using the lvm 1.0.1-rc4 patches and lvm tools on /dev/sdd. Right now, we partitioned /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 with 50MB each, and we built out of them /dev/md0 with software RAID-1. This we would like to use as /boot. The rest of the system on /dev/sda and /dev/sdb we partitioned in one huge partition each and we built out of them /dev/md1 with Software RAID-1 and we created vg00 with lvm on top of it. Then we put a new root logical volume on /dev/vg00/lvol1. We mounted on /mnt and copied / over to it just fine, then edited /mnt/etc/fstab to put root on /dev/vg00/lvol1. (The rest of the file systems we left temporary still on /dev/sdd like /usr, /var, etc.) We created the new filesystems for /boot, / with mke2fs. We used lvmcreate_initrd to make /boot/initrd-lvm-2.4.3.gz, and can boot lilo with initrd. At boot time, it boots the kernel, loads the ram disk, runs /linuxrc and when it tries to mount the root file system we get the error message, see above.

We think this is just a configuration issue, please check the files below and give us some advice how to get the system up and running. We would like to check the possibility if there is a way to elliminate this small 50M partition for /boot and integrate that also into the big one under LVM.

Thank you in advance.

Best Regards, Ferenc Csuk

----------------------- config files --------------------------

Content of /etc/lilo.conf:

boot = /dev/sda vga = normal read-only menu-scheme = Wg:kw:Wg:Wg lba32 prompt timeout = 80 message = /boot/message

image = /boot/vmlinuz label = linux root = /dev/sdd1 initrd = /boot/initrd

image = /boot/vmlinuz label = linux_lvm root = /dev/vg00/lvol1 initrd = /boot/initrd-lvm-2.4.0.gz append = "ramdisk_size=8192" optional

image = /boot/vmlinuz_24 label = linux_2.4 root = /dev/sdd1 initrd = /boot/initrd_24 optional

image = /boot/vmlinuz.suse label = suse root = /dev/sdd1 initrd = /boot/initrd.suse optional

image = /boot/memtest.bin label = memtest86

Content of /etc/raidtab:

raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks 0 chunk-size 4 persistent-superblock 1 device /dev/sda1 raid-disk 0 device /dev/sdb1 raid-disk 1

raiddev /dev/md1 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks 0 chunk-size 4 persistent-superblock 1 device /dev/sda2 raid-disk 0 device /dev/sdb2 raid-disk 1

Content of /mnt/etc/fstab:

#/dev/sdd1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 #/dev/sdd2 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/cdrom /cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/sdd8 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/sdd7 /opt ext2 defaults 1 2 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sdd9 /tmp ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/sdd5 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/sdd6 /var ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/sdd3 swap swap defaults 0 2 # /dev/vg00/lvol1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/md0 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2