Re: [SLE] Root filesystem on LVM on SuSE 9.0
The frustrating thing is I can see it should be possible to do - LILO is
LVM-aware. On RedHat you don't have to have / (the root filesystem) as a
non-LVM partition. It definitely works with / in a logical volume (and swap
too I should think though I haven't tried it). The only question is whether
you can have /boot in there too, and if LILO is LVM-aware I don't see why
not. I don't really understand the Linux boot-up process fully but
shouldn't it be possible to update initrd to contain the right bits so that
the system can mount the root fs from within a logical volume - RedHat can
do it so why can't SuSE? If anyone from SuSE is reading this, PLEASE update
your distribution accordingly! From my AIX background I can say that a LVM
is a wonderful thing and it's shame to waste it!
This will be my first SuSE 9.0 install on an xSeries server so I don't have
much experience to share other than my frustration at the installation!
As for IBM support, well I assume that there's no issue on supporting
hardware issues and I'm assuming that re. the OS I will be unsupported.
Hence my posting to this mailing list!
Chris
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I am trying to install SuSE 9.0 on an Intel machine but I want everything to be managed by the LVM. This should be possible but I'm having
Chris_Eason@JohnLewis.co.uk wrote: problems.
I wonder if anyone can help?
The main problem I'm having is that when the system first reboots towards the end of the installation process, I get lots of errors:
[snip] Freeing initrd memory: 1223k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) Loading kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.o insmod: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Loading kernel/drivers/scsi/sd_mod.o insmod: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[snip] I don't remember what the exact issue (perhaps it was the grub package shipped with SuSE) but you need /boot, / and swap to be non LVM partitions. As pointed out by your errors above, while booting your server can't load necessary modules located in /lib/modules/2.4.21-166-default/
DMI: BIOS: IBM -[T2E125AUS-1.06]-, 6/2/2003 System: IBM, eserver xSeries 335 -[867611X]- Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 3a:01
On an unrelated note.. what has your experience been like with SuSE 9.0 on the IBM xSeries servers? I will be installing 9.0 on an xSeries 225. I know IBM doesn't officially support SuSE 9.0 Professional on the xSeries so I'm curious as to how their technical support department deals with any requests for help or information.
The only configuration that works so far is to have
- Root filesystem on a non-LVM partition - swap on a non-LVM partition - everything else in the LVM
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