https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397816 User hare@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397816#c20 --- Comment #20 from Hannes Reinecke <hare@novell.com> 2008-06-12 00:37:26 MDT --- Pretty much so. device-mapper refuses to create dm-devices if the underlying devices are busy, eg mounted. So I fear we need to do some initrd hackery here to get the required result. What you need to do is to create a initrd script /lib/mkinitrd/scripts/boot-dm_linear.sh which just creates a linear table on top of your existing sda device. mkinitrd already has the required infrastructure in place, so whenever a dm-device is specified as a root device it'll do the right thing, like running kpartx etc. Then re-run mkinitrd and everything should be nice an dandy. Let's see how the mkinitrd script could look like ... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.