Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 with LVM

2012-01-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: > I believe I have solved my LVM booting problem with the kernel not finding > the > root filesystem. > > > # Start the udev daemon to continually watch for, and act on, > # uevents > /sbin/udevd --daemon > > # Now traverse /sys in order to "coldplug" d

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 with LVM

2012-01-30 Thread Baho Utot
I believe I have solved my LVM booting problem with the kernel not finding the root filesystem. # Start the udev daemon to continually watch for, and act on, # uevents /sbin/udevd --daemon # Now traverse /sys in order to "coldplug" devices that have # already been

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 with LVM

2012-01-29 Thread Qrux
On Jan 29, 2012, at 7:04 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Qrux wrote: > >> If you're not testing kernel operations that handle bare-metal (e.g., >> physical hardware drivers), you can do FS-related testing (or >> anything higher-level than the FS) even more easily (from a >> disk-space perspective) with

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 with LVM

2012-01-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Qrux wrote: > If you're not testing kernel operations that handle bare-metal (e.g., > physical hardware drivers), you can do FS-related testing (or > anything higher-level than the FS) even more easily (from a > disk-space perspective) with VMs. Wait for it. Hopefully later tonight in BLFS. >

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 with LVM

2012-01-29 Thread Qrux
On Jan 29, 2012, at 5:41 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > On Sunday 29 January 2012 08:08:58 pm Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Baho Utot wrote: >>> For me it is ever try to manage 16 regular partitions? >> >> How about two regular partitions: / and /boot, and lvm for everything else. >> >> And yes, I do manage 16

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 with LVM

2012-01-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: > What I do is to create a new lvm partition for the system under test. . . > > Then bend break and mutilate as necessary. After I am done and it is no > longer needed...just remove it from the grub menu and lvm and I am done. > every thing is clean. What if from your list abo

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 with LVM

2012-01-29 Thread Baho Utot
On Sunday 29 January 2012 08:08:58 pm Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > For me it is ever try to manage 16 regular partitions? > > How about two regular partitions: / and /boot, and lvm for everything else. > > And yes, I do manage 16 regular partitions: > > $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda > > D

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 with LVM

2012-01-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: > For me it is ever try to manage 16 regular partitions? How about two regular partitions: / and /boot, and lvm for everything else. And yes, I do manage 16 regular partitions: $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 with LVM

2012-01-29 Thread Baho Utot
On Sunday 29 January 2012 07:05:17 pm Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > Am I correct in believeing that the root filesystem is mounted from > > the /etc/rc./init.d/mountfs script? > > No. It must be mounted in the initramfs or the kernel itself, usually > readonly. That is working in th

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 with LVM

2012-01-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: > Am I correct in believeing that the root filesystem is mounted from > the /etc/rc./init.d/mountfs script? No. It must be mounted in the initramfs or the kernel itself, usually readonly. > If so is it permissable to remove the part that mounts the root filesystem? > > Does