[opensuse-factory] Live install (LVM) broken in Factory?
I downloaded the M5 Gnome Live CD in order to give it a go, and then attempted to do a live install. I chose an LVM partition setup, and at the point the installer attempted to mount the root partition it failed, saying it had failed to mount "/dev/system/root on /" (apologies I'm getting this from memory rather than a log file). I'm now trying an install from the Live CD using a partition-based setup, and it appears to be working. So, can anyone confirm my problem? (I can't find anything in Bugzilla) Cheers, John. -- John Beranek To generalise is to be an idiot. http://redux.org.uk/ -- William Blake
On 19/04/2010 22:39, John Beranek wrote:
I downloaded the M5 Gnome Live CD in order to give it a go, and then attempted to do a live install.
I chose an LVM partition setup, and at the point the installer attempted to mount the root partition it failed, saying it had failed to mount "/dev/system/root on /" (apologies I'm getting this from memory rather than a log file).
I'm now trying an install from the Live CD using a partition-based setup, and it appears to be working.
Well, working until the installer went to install the bootloader...at this point it hung. I waited quite a while but nothing further happened - I reset the VM and the resulting system was not bootable. :/ John. -- John Beranek To generalise is to be an idiot. http://redux.org.uk/ -- William Blake
On 19/04/2010 23:27, John Beranek wrote:
On 19/04/2010 22:39, John Beranek wrote:
I downloaded the M5 Gnome Live CD in order to give it a go, and then attempted to do a live install.
I chose an LVM partition setup, and at the point the installer attempted to mount the root partition it failed, saying it had failed to mount "/dev/system/root on /" (apologies I'm getting this from memory rather than a log file).
I'm now trying an install from the Live CD using a partition-based setup, and it appears to be working.
Well, working until the installer went to install the bootloader...at this point it hung. I waited quite a while but nothing further happened - I reset the VM and the resulting system was not bootable. :/
Weird, made some attempt to fix the botched live-install: *) Booted the VM with System Rescue CD *) Verified partitioning: looks fine *) Mounted root partition, looked mostly fine, except the initrd hadn't been created *) Ran mkinitrd with no extra parameters - not sure if this is good enough, especially with a VMware VM... *) Ran grub-install with no parameters. Still only get a blank screen at boot time if I let the VM boot from the HDD. What am I doing wrong? What else can I do on the rescue system to fix the boot? Cheers, John. -- John Beranek To generalise is to be an idiot. http://redux.org.uk/ -- William Blake
On 22/04/2010 23:57, John Beranek wrote:
On 19/04/2010 23:27, John Beranek wrote:
On 19/04/2010 22:39, John Beranek wrote:
I downloaded the M5 Gnome Live CD in order to give it a go, and then attempted to do a live install.
I chose an LVM partition setup, and at the point the installer attempted to mount the root partition it failed, saying it had failed to mount "/dev/system/root on /" (apologies I'm getting this from memory rather than a log file).
I'm now trying an install from the Live CD using a partition-based setup, and it appears to be working.
Well, working until the installer went to install the bootloader...at this point it hung. I waited quite a while but nothing further happened - I reset the VM and the resulting system was not bootable. :/
Weird, made some attempt to fix the botched live-install:
*) Booted the VM with System Rescue CD *) Verified partitioning: looks fine *) Mounted root partition, looked mostly fine, except the initrd hadn't been created *) Ran mkinitrd with no extra parameters - not sure if this is good enough, especially with a VMware VM... *) Ran grub-install with no parameters.
Still only get a blank screen at boot time if I let the VM boot from the HDD.
What am I doing wrong? What else can I do on the rescue system to fix the boot?
Aha, scratch that question - running "yast2 bootloader" and choosing "Propose new configuration" and letting it do it's job has worked, yay! John. -- John Beranek To generalise is to be an idiot. http://redux.org.uk/ -- William Blake
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:39:10PM +0100, John Beranek wrote:
I downloaded the M5 Gnome Live CD in order to give it a go, and then attempted to do a live install.
I chose an LVM partition setup, and at the point the installer attempted to mount the root partition it failed, saying it had failed to mount "/dev/system/root on /" (apologies I'm getting this from memory rather than a log file).
I'm now trying an install from the Live CD using a partition-based setup, and it appears to be working.
So, can anyone confirm my problem? (I can't find anything in Bugzilla)
Yes, please make a bug report. So far I can only tell that the device nodes, e.g. /dev/dm-0, suddenly disappear. Regards, Arvin -- Arvin Schnell, <aschnell@suse.de> Senior Software Engineer, Research & Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 04:04:54PM +0200, Arvin Schnell wrote:
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:39:10PM +0100, John Beranek wrote:
I downloaded the M5 Gnome Live CD in order to give it a go, and then attempted to do a live install.
I chose an LVM partition setup, and at the point the installer attempted to mount the root partition it failed, saying it had failed to mount "/dev/system/root on /" (apologies I'm getting this from memory rather than a log file).
I'm now trying an install from the Live CD using a partition-based setup, and it appears to be working.
So, can anyone confirm my problem? (I can't find anything in Bugzilla)
Yes, please make a bug report. So far I can only tell that the device nodes, e.g. /dev/dm-0, suddenly disappear.
I made the bug report after I figured out which program removes the device nodes. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598193 Regards, Arvin -- Arvin Schnell, <aschnell@suse.de> Senior Software Engineer, Research & Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On 20/04/10 17:58, Arvin Schnell wrote:
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 04:04:54PM +0200, Arvin Schnell wrote:
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:39:10PM +0100, John Beranek wrote:
I downloaded the M5 Gnome Live CD in order to give it a go, and then attempted to do a live install.
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So, can anyone confirm my problem? (I can't find anything in Bugzilla)
Yes, please make a bug report. So far I can only tell that the device nodes, e.g. /dev/dm-0, suddenly disappear.
I made the bug report after I figured out which program removes the device nodes.
Thanks for that, I've not had much time to do any further testing of enter my own bug. It's not helped by the fact I was trying to run the VM on a laptop with insufficient memory for the job in hand. ;) Cheers, John. -- John Beranek To generalise is to be an idiot. http://redux.org.uk/ -- William Blake
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