Re: Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-13 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> But i still got the error about can finding vg_maingroup which i |> believe is my main filesystem. I strongly suspect that you are trying to boot a kernel which does not include LVM support. (Partly because I had very similar problems in upgrading to 2.6.29 from 2.6.22 and this was the reaso

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-05 Thread Joey L
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:27 PM, thveillon.debian < thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Joey L wrote : > > I think i did everything and this is a standard configuration - I did > > not do anything too crazy ! > > Again - all this is software raid --- the /boot is raid1 and the other > > volum

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-03 Thread thveillon.debian
Joey L wrote : > I think i did everything and this is a standard configuration - I did > not do anything too crazy ! > Again - all this is software raid --- the /boot is raid1 and the other > volumes are software raid5 The Raid5 has LVM filesystems. > > here is fdisk -l : > > thor:/home/mjh# fd

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 09:29:05PM -0400, Joey L wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:13 PM, thveil...@gmail.com > wrote: > > > thveillon.debian wrote : > > > [snip] > > > > Sorry, please ignore my advice to load dm-mod in the initrd, reading the > > whole thread I saw you are running on software

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread Joey L
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:13 PM, thveil...@gmail.com wrote: > thveillon.debian wrote : > > > > I see nothing that strikes me as odd in your conf, outside of the fact > > that you only have a single user entry for your new kernel. > > I think you need to add lvm mapper module to the initrd, echo dm-

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread thveil...@gmail.com
thveillon.debian wrote : > > I see nothing that strikes me as odd in your conf, outside of the fact > that you only have a single user entry for your new kernel. > I think you need to add lvm mapper module to the initrd, echo dm-mod to > /etc/initramfs-tools/modules like you did for md-mod and rai

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread thveillon.debian
Joey L wrote : > > Tom - thanks for the points..but need more help !! please > > I did as you said - > 1. echo -e "raid1\nmd_mod\nraid456" >> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules > 2. update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.29 > > and i saw that the modules all loaded successfully. > But i still got the error that i

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread Joey L
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:22 PM, thveillon.debian < thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Joey L wrote : > > Tom - thanks for the reply - > > Do you think that is the issue ??? > > I am running mirrored drives for /boot. I can not boot off of lvm. > > I have the rest of my drives on software

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread thveillon.debian
Joey L wrote : > Tom - thanks for the reply - > Do you think that is the issue ??? > I am running mirrored drives for /boot. I can not boot off of lvm. > I have the rest of my drives on software raid5 and i have created lvm > volume groups and put my / filesystem allong with everything else on th

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread Joey L
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Joey L wrote: > > >> > >> fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version -mykernel --revision 1 >> kernel-image kernel-headers >> >> >> Change the "mykernel" string and revision number to differentiate your >> builds. >> >> You are booting from a lvm it seems, may

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread Joey L
> > > > > > fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version -mykernel --revision 1 > kernel-image kernel-headers > > > Change the "mykernel" string and revision number to differentiate your > builds. > > You are booting from a lvm it seems, maybe with root on lvm. Do you have > a separate /boot ? A

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread thveillon.debian
Joey L a écrit : > > make-kpkg -rfakeroot --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image > sudo dpkg -i ../linux-image-2.6.29custom1.0_deb > > Maybe that should sort things out. Let me know if you face further > problems. > > > > > Sorry - i tried to run that command but it g

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread Joey L
> > > make-kpkg -rfakeroot --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image > sudo dpkg -i ../linux-image-2.6.29custom1.0_deb > > Maybe that should sort things out. Let me know if you face further > problems. > Sorry - i tried to run that command but it gave an error - something that rfakeroot is

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 01:15:02AM -0400, Joey L wrote: > True, that will not necessitate a recompile. But, the next time you > build your kernel, just use > > make-kpkg -rfakeroot --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image > > Also, to easily make an initramfs, I use update-

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-01 Thread Joey L
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 12:29:32AM -0400, Joey L wrote: > > You might want to do add "--initrd" to the list of arguments to > build > > the ramdisk, which would load the modules required to mount your > > drives and read the fi

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 12:29:32AM -0400, Joey L wrote: > You might want to do add "--initrd" to the list of arguments to build > the ramdisk, which would load the modules required to mount your > drives and read the files etc. That should solve the problem. > >Thanks for gettin

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-01 Thread Joey L
> > > > > > make-kpkg clean > > fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image > > You might want to do add "--initrd" to the list of arguments to build > the ramdisk, which would load the modules required to mount your > drives and read the files etc. That should solve the problem. > > Than

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Joey L wrote: > I am running debian etch with - Linux thor 2.6.18-6-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Dec 25 > 21:08:54 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux ; I am running this with Raid 5 and LVM. > > I would like to update to 2.6.29 ; I found this article but i am little > stuck, can you help