[issue971] grml-rescueboot does not support lvm and md/raid devices

[Faheem Mitha]

Faheem Mitha <faheem at email.unc.edu> added the comment:

On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Ulrich Dangel wrote:

>
> Ulrich Dangel <mru at grml.org> added the comment:
>
> Ok, the grub config seems to fine. You can specify debug=y on the cmdline to get
> more debug output.

Ok, I'll try that. Any suggestions for writing to a file or external 
device? Otherwise the output will be lost.

> I am currently not sure what the problem is as i tested it with the sid images.
> Can you maybe use the sid iso to run the tests? What is the physical volume of
> of your volumegroup? An usb device?

Which iso did you use, exactly? I'm on 32 bit here, but otherwise I can 
try to duplicate your iso as closely as possible. The VG is on top of a sw 
RAID 1 setup. See below. Did you do LVM on top of software RAID 1?

orwell:/home/faheem# vgdisplay debian
   --- Volume group ---
   VG Name               debian
   System ID
   Format                lvm2
   Metadata Areas        1
   Metadata Sequence No  5
   VG Access             read/write
   VG Status             resizable
   MAX LV                0
   Cur LV                4
   Open LV               4
   Max PV                0
   Cur PV                1
   Act PV                1
   VG Size               465.76 GiB
   PE Size               4.00 MiB
   Total PE              119234
   Alloc PE / Size       36952 / 144.34 GiB
   Free  PE / Size       82282 / 321.41 GiB
   VG UUID               a1OCIH-gpz9-fGLj-zGfI-dwuM-kw0n-r2tZRQ

orwell:/home/faheem# pvs
   PV         VG         Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree
   /dev/md0   testdebian lvm2 a-   111.75g  34.22g
   /dev/md1   debian     lvm2 a-   465.76g 321.41g
   /dev/sdc6  olddebian  lvm2 a-   186.26g  21.26g
   /dev/sdd1  backup     lvm2 a-   186.26g  96.26g

orwell:/home/faheem# mdadm -D /dev/md1
/dev/md1:
         Version : 1.2
   Creation Time : Thu Jan 13 16:45:39 2011
      Raid Level : raid1
      Array Size : 488383352 (465.76 GiB 500.10 GB)
   Used Dev Size : 488383352 (465.76 GiB 500.10 GB)
    Raid Devices : 2
   Total Devices : 2
     Persistence : Superblock is persistent

     Update Time : Tue Mar 29 04:49:38 2011
           State : clean
  Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
  Failed Devices : 0
   Spare Devices : 0

            Name : chrestomanci:1
            UUID : 157f39b8:13bf0624:8810a5a9:d520c548
          Events : 136

     Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
        0       8        1        0      active sync   /dev/sda1
        1       8       17        1      active sync   /dev/sdb1

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messages: 3695, 3718, 3719, 3720, 3721, 3722, 3723, 3724, 3725, 3726
nosy: faheem
priority: bug
status: chatting
title: grml-rescueboot does not support lvm and md/raid devices

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