Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 15:22:14 -0400
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.21.1 on Fedora Core 6 breaks LVM/vgscan
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On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 12:23:30PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
 > Jonathan Woithe wrote:
 > > On 21 May 2007 I wrote:
 > > 
 > >> Attempting to compile a 2.6.21.1 kernel for use on a Fedora Core 6 box
 > >> results in a panic at boot because the root filesystem can't be found.
 > > 
 > > I have just compiled 2.6.22-rc2 with the configuration file given in my
 > > previous post and the resulting kernel successfully boots on the machine
 > > concerned.  Whatever broke LVM for this machine in between 2.6.18 and
 > > 2.6.21.1 has now been fixed.
 > > 
 > I haven't had any problem booting with any of the kernels, but when I 
 > try to build a kernel with a Fedora config from /boot, it builds fine 
 > but doesn't boot after install. I started by building a very basic 
 > kernel for testing, and then started adding features to get everything I 
 > need. But just using the latest FC6 config file gets me a kernel which 
 > fails in just the way you mention.

9 times out of 10 it's a busted initrd.
Pull it apart and check that the relevant storage modules & their dependancies
are present.

	Dave

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