Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757730AbYBRA6S (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:58:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755848AbYBRA6F (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:58:05 -0500 Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:42841 "EHLO out3.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755521AbYBRA6D (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:58:03 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: jMw730nOdR6rpyqXdytunhh3LY86So498xDJpwGgaB05 1203296281 Message-ID: <47B8D80C.8000408@imap.cc> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:57:48 +0100 From: Tilman Schmidt Organization: me - organized?? User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 SeaMonkey/1.1.8 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jiri Slaby CC: Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2 regression: LVM cannot find volume group References: <47B73616.9050303@imap.cc> <20080216201206.1452cfe7@core> <47B765B1.1030709@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47B765B1.1030709@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigB601C9E6DD00B1C2D2C7AD1B" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2752 Lines: 91 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB601C9E6DD00B1C2D2C7AD1B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 16.02.2008 23:37 schrieb Jiri Slaby: > On 02/16/2008 09:12 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:14:30 +0100 >> Tilman Schmidt wrote: >> >>> 2.6.25-rc2 fails to bring up my openSUSE 10.3 PC because LVM >>> cannot find the volume group containing the root file system. >>> 2.6.25-rc1 has the same problem, 2.6.24 works fine. Bisection says: edfaa7c36574f1bf09c65ad602412db9da5f96bf is first bad commit commit edfaa7c36574f1bf09c65ad602412db9da5f96bf Author: Kay Sievers Date: Mon May 21 22:08:01 2007 +0200 Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core devices This moves the block devices to /sys/class/block. It will create a flat list of all block devices, with the disks and partitions in one= directory. For compatibility /sys/block is created and contains syml= inks to the disks. Apparently, compatibility is in the eye of the beholder - in this case, LVM. >> Compile in SCSI disk support. Modular even if loaded in initrd it seem= s >> to have broken somewhere. Setting CONFIG_SCSI=3Dy CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=3Dy does not help. The problem persists. > # CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set >=20 > I would suspect this. Setting CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=3Dy does indeed fix the problem and allows me to boot successfully. Pity, I was so happy getting rid of that a couple of releases ago. > Try to upgrade to at least lvm 2.02.29 (I guess this is the first versi= on which=20 > understands the new sysfs layout). I'll have to investigate how to do that without breaking anything. HTH T. --=20 Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: tilman@imap.cc Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Unge=F6ffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe R=FCckseite) --------------enigB601C9E6DD00B1C2D2C7AD1B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3rc1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHuNgWMdB4Whm86/kRAv3SAJ94UcEXsZqgJcTDuVFSXLrTQ9CpXQCfSnOT DDIYjyEksnpc2b+dA5ohmcI= =O+9n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB601C9E6DD00B1C2D2C7AD1B-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/