Xen users - Jun 2005 - lvm root partition

Has anyone had any joy running lvm as the root partition on a domain 0
machine?

I''ve download the 2.0.6 source and built that (I''m using xfs
so I have
to compile from scratch -- the only difference is I''ve added xfs.) but
when I come to boot into the xen kernel it cannot find the root
partition.

rgh

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Richard Heycock wrote:
>Has anyone had any joy running lvm as the root partition on a domain 0
>machine?
>
>I''ve download the 2.0.6 source and built that (I''m using
xfs so I have
>to compile from scratch -- the only difference is I''ve added xfs.)
but
>when I come to boot into the xen kernel it cannot find the root
>partition.
>
>  
>
I believe you don''t have the correct initrd image for that version of 
xen kernel.

By default, kernel modules are included in initrd, so using different 
kernel means you have to create a different initrd. In my case, to 
simplify things I include all disk drivers (SCSI, ext3, reiserfs, etc) 
and LVM driver in the kernel (not as a module), so I can use the same 
initrd image (which only contains executable and scripts, with no kernel 
module) for all versions of Xen kernels and native linux kernels.

Regards,

Fajar

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