William L. Maltby wrote:
On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 22:22 -0400, Ted Miller wrote:
William L. Maltby wrote:
On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 09:27 -0400, Ted Miller wrote:
I'll admit I am new to LVM2, but I have got myself in a bad spot.
I renamed the LVM volume and volume group so that I can keep track of what is in them. I have changed grub's menu.lst, /etc/fstab, and /etc/mtab, but somewhere else there is still something telling lvm that my root drive is on VolGroup00. Where is it, and how do I convince it that VolGroup00/Volume00 (or whatever the defaults are) is now DriveC/Centos? I suspect it may be hiding in initrd (compressed).
^^^^^^^^^^I didn't repeat this since you spotted it already.
Yep. Fortunately, thats a cpio file. So uncompress, go to tmp make a
^^^^^^^^^^Did you remember to do the above? Based on your file name I suspect not.
No, I read too fast, and thought cpio would take care of the compression too. I should have known better.
# file /boot/initrd* /boot/initrd-2.6.9-34.EL.img: gzip compressed data, from Unix, max compression /boot/initrd-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL.img: gzip compressed data, from Unix, max compression
My use of the -I (your -F) presumed that you did something like
gzip -dc <your-compressed-image >a-temp-filebut you could just as easily gzip -dc <image | cpio -idmvc # No -I/-F
That worked for me this time.
Ted Miller
Then cd into the dir and find . -name init. Edit that file. There's two "ingnorelockingfailure" imperatives in there. One of them names the volgroup. Add yours to the list (comma, IIRC - use the man page if there is one).
Got that done right (I think, see below)
Then cpio it back up by using the -c param and compress it.
I tried to do this: find . -print -depth | cpio -oc | gzip > /media/centos/boot/initrd-2.6.9-34.EL.img
I got a file that looks the same as the original initrd (size, permissions, etc) but when I go to reboot, I get a message saying it can't find the init file >> kernel panic
I also get this: file ini* initrd-2.6.9-EL.img: gzip compressed data, from Unix initrd-2.6.9-EL.img.orig.TCM: gzip compressed data, from Unix, max compression
obviously mine isn't quite the same as the original. I assume that it is probably some command line switch on the gzip command that makes the difference, but the info page is not at all clear about what I have to do to match the original. One web page showed using gzip without any parameters, so I tried that, using this command line: find . -print -depth | cpio -ov > tree.cpio|gzip>initrd-2.6.9-EL.img
After several more tries, without success, trying to get the boot process to recognize and use my altered rdinit file, I finally gave up and did an "upgrade" from CD. It trashed some things, but it did restore the install so that it would boot. I should have unchecked all packages when it asked what I wanted installed. That would have trashed less stuff.
Ted Miller