I have since been told to use the 'lvmcreate_initrd' command to create a new boot image that loads LVM tools before passing off to the kernel but the only way I can get to the disks (and their files) is using the Fedora install disk 1 in rescue mode where the directories that 'lvmcreate_initrd' look for off of '/' are actually mounted off 'mnt/sysimage'. I tried symlinking but it fails (I'll post below why in a sec). First, here is the kernel panic and a few lines leading up to it... -= Kernel panic... ... Creating block devices Scanning logical volumes vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) raid5: switching cache buffer size, 4096 --> 1024 vgscan -- found inactive volume group "vg0" vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group Activating logical volumes vgchange -- volume group "vg0" successfully activate Mounting root filesystem VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev lvm(58,0). mount: error 22 mounting ext3 picotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 umount /initrd/proc failed: 2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. -= End kernel panic How would I pass options to the kernel (via "init="?) Here is what happens when I try to use the 'lvmcreate_initrd' tool under the rescue mode of the Fedora Install CD: -= First, 'df' before I begin... sh-2.05b# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 6120 3564 2206 62% / /dev/root.old 6120 3564 2206 62% / /tmp/cdrom 644864 644864 0 100% /mnt/source /dev/vg0/root 17919448 1916960 16002488 11% /mnt/sysimage /dev/hda1 101086 6767 89100 8% /mnt/sysimage/boot /dev/hda3 76304192 32828 72395284 1% /mnt/sysimage/single (Note that I have an IDE for '/boot' and swap) -= Okay, my simlinks are in place. Now running 'lvmcreate_initrd' sh-2.05b# lvmcreate_initrd Logical Volume Manager 1.0.3 by Heinz Mauelshagen 02/19/2002 lvmcreate_initrd -- make LVM initial ram disk /boot/initrd-lvm-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.gz lvmcreate_initrd -- finding required shared libraries lvmcreate_initrd -- stripping shared libraries lvmcreate_initrd -- calculating initrd filesystem parameters lvmcreate_initrd -- calculating loopback file size du: invalid option -- c BusyBox v0.60.5 (2003.01.24-22:44+000) multi-call binary Usage: du [-lsxhmk] [FILE]... lvmcreate_initrd -- making loopback file (541 kB) lvmcreate_initrd -- making ram disk filesystem 9238 inodes) lvmcreate_initrd -- mounting ramdisk filesystem lvmcreate_initrd -- creating new /etc/modules.conf lvmcreate_initrd -- creating new modules.dep depmod: Can't open /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/modules.dep for writing lvmcreate_initrd -- ERROR running depmod rmdir: unable to remove '/tmp/mnt.1185': Device or resource busy -= It failed... Here is 'df' again, with the loopback still mounted sh-2.05b# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 6120 3564 2206 62% / /dev/root.old 6120 3564 2206 62% / /tmp/cdrom 644864 644864 0 100% /mnt/source /dev/vg0/root 17919448 1916960 16002488 11% /mnt/sysimage /dev/hda1 101086 6767 89100 8% /mnt/sysimage/boot /dev/hda3 76304192 32828 72395284 1% /mnt/sysimage/single /dev/loop1 506 19 487 4% /tmp/mnt.1185 -= When I try to create a symlink to '/lib/modules' I am told: sh-2.05b# cd /lib sh-2.05b# ln -s /mnt/sysimage/lib/modules ln: creating symbolic link './modules' to '/mnt/sysimage/lib/modules': Read-only file system sh-2.05b# cd / sh-2.05b# ls -lah | grep lib lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Dec 19 12:05 lib -> /mnt/runtime/lib sh-2.05b# cd /mnt/runtime/ sh-2.05b# ls -lah | grep lib drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.6k Jan 1 1970 lib So, have I done something stupidly wrong?? Again, you help is -very- much appreciated! Madison Robert Brockway wrote:

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Madison Kelly wrote:

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Stupid question time, where would I enter that? At the grub menu? The kernel panic said something about passing something to init, is that where?

Hi Maddy.

Could you post the panic message you are getting (assuming the suggesting to use "linux reiserfs" doesn't work).

Rob

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