[Mageia-dev] System doen't boot with LVM

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 20/02/13 23:19 did gyre and gimble:
> 'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 20/02/13 20:13 did gyre and gimble:
>> * Colin Guthrie (mageia at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:
>>> 'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 20/02/13 18:13 did gyre and gimble:
>>>> * Colin Guthrie (mageia at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Iirc I replaced for_each_host_dev_and_slaves by
>>>> for_each_host_dev_and_slaves_all.
>>>>
>>>> Honestly I don't understand what it change...
>>>>
>>>> Hope this help.
>>>
>>> Yes, that helps a lot.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure why it makes a difference (considering my own setup here is
>>> at least partially similar to yours), but I'll definitely dig into it more.
>>>
>>> Can you describe the LVM setup? i.e. how the lvm sits on top of the
>>> physical disks etc? I really want to try and reproduce the issue so I
>>> can make a good upstream explanation of the problem with the patch.
>>
>> Sure, my disk is a SSD:
>>
>>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>>    /dev/sda1              63       80324       40131   de  Dell Utility
>>    /dev/sda2   *       81920     1622015      770048    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
>>    /dev/sda3         1622016   124499967    61438976    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
>>    /dev/sda4       124502016   500105215   187801600    5  Extended
>>    /dev/sda5       124506112   125547974      520931+  83  Linux
>>    /dev/sda6       125550592   500103449   187276429   8e  Linux LVM
>>
>>
>> /dev/sda5 = /boot
>>
>> /dev/sda6 = the whole lvm
>>
>> [root at localhost foo]# lvs
>>   LV    VG          Attr      LSize   Pool Origin Data%  Move Log Copy% Convert
>>     crypt sagittarius -wi-ao--- 141,01g                                           
>>     root  sagittarius -wi-ao---  12,77g                                           
>>     swap  sagittarius -wi-ao---   3,91g                                           
>>     tmp   sagittarius -wi-ao---   3,00g                                           
>>     var   sagittarius -wi-ao---   1,95g
>>
>> the "crypt" lv is my /home:
>>
>> /dev/mapper/crypt_sagittarius_crypt on /home type ext4 (rw,noatime,commit=600,data=ordered)
>>
>> Don't hesitate if you need more output, especially device and dm number.
>>
>> I can produce debug output of dracut too if necessary.
> 
> 
> If you could supply debug output when generating initrd both with the
> packaged version and your patched version that would be very useful and
> may allow me to avoid having to exactly duplicate the setup!!

Actually no need for debug output. I spoke to Harald upstream and he
reckoned your change is indeed correct and required. I'll patch our
package shortly.

Thank you very much for debugging this and being so patient :)

Col



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