[linux-lvm] Upgrade Linux 2.2 to 2.4 problems
Heinz J . Mauelshagen
mauelshagen at sistina.com
Wed Oct 2 05:28:01 UTC 2002
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 11:22:22PM +0100, Dick Middleton wrote:
> I'm still having difficulty getting LVM to behave itself on a 2.4 kernel
> when it
> works fine on a 2.2 kernel. I'm using beta7 on both kernels - the 2.4
> kernel
> is 2.4.10.ac4 which seems to have version beta7(ish) in it. I'm booting
> through
> initrd as /root is on LVM.
>
> vgscan appears to work ok but vgchange fails with:
>
> Error- can't get names of physical volumes - please check if /proc is
> mounted.
>
> Well, /proc is mounted - in fact if it isn't mounted I don't this error.
>
> What does this error message mean and what's likely to be wrong to cause it?
Dick,
this can't be the exact LVM 0.9-Beta7 error message.
Is /proc really mounted, *before* vgchange runs in /linuxrc?
BTW: why do you use such an old kernel and LVM version?
Please give a recent one and LVM 1.0.5 a try.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Dick
>
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