[CentOS-virt] xen-c6 fails to boot

Tue Dec 9 16:17:37 UTC 2014
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 12/09/2014 04:48 AM, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Bob Ball <bob.ball at citrix.com> wrote:
>> Thanks all for the advice.
>>
>> It seems there is an issue with Dracut booting from these hosts when LVM is used.
>>
>> dracut: Scanning devices sda2  for LVM logical volumes VolGroup/lv_swap VolGroup/lv_root
>> dracut: inactive '/dev/VolGroup/lv_swap' [1.94 GiB] inherit
>> dracut: inactive '/dev/VolGroup/lv_root' [230.69 GiB] inherit
>> dracut: PARTIAL MODE. Incomplete logical volumes will be processed.
>> dracut: Operation prohibited while global/metadata_read_only is set.
>> dracut: Operation prohibited while global/metadata_read_only is set.
>> ...
>> dracut Warning: LVM VolGroup/lv_swap not found
>> dracut Warning: LVM VolGroup/lv_root not found
>>
>> Switching my kickstart to use real partitions rather than LVM solved the issue.  Not sure if that's enough detail to figure out what's wrong / missing from the kernel / initrd.
> 
> Sorry, it's still not clear from the previous conversation -- in
> addition to updating to Centos 6.6, have you also switched to the
> official Xen4CentOS repos (i.e., by installing centos-release-xen)?

LVM not working is something we can look at .. I will try to find a
drive to use to test this.




-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20141209/93a1e639/attachment-0006.sig>