[olug] *urgent* Suse 9.1 pro boot issue (md related?)

[Eric Penne]

Another question.

Using the suse dvd I am at a command prompt.  I mounted all the lvm drives
in /mnt and chroot to /mnt.  I checked my lilo.conf and root="" is what I
found.  For an LVM system should root = "/dev/system/root" be what I want?

Eric


> I believe that my Suse installation is hosed.  This is my main work
> computer.  I don't want to spend another 8 hours reinstalling Suse and
> CXOffice and MSOffice.
>
> I get to a point where it says "Waiting for /dev/0 to appear...not found."
> Then is lists all the mount points that are valid and says "dropping to
> /bin/sh"  and that is as far as it goes.
>
> Specs:
> Laptop P3 1GHz Dell
> 20GB hda
>    hda1 50 MB fat32 (bootable)
>    hda2 500MB swap
>    hda3 18 GB lvm
>    hda4 50 MB ext2 /boot
> DVD hdb
> 4 GB hdc
>    hdc1 fat32 win2k install
>
> hda4 is physically in "front" of hda3.  Originally all I had was hda1 for
> swap and hda2 for /boot but win2k wanted a small partition on the first
> drive for its boot files.
>
> The lvm is 2GB usr 2GB root 5GB home 2GB opt 2GB var
>
> I do not think that I use md devices.  I'm not sure what they are but I
> think they are raid related.
>
> I spent all yesterday trying to get win2k on the second hard drive.  I had
> to break up my hda and move stuff around to get win2k to boot.  When I was
> done I had to boot into rescue mode and redo my lilo config.  It worked.
> I booted into linux and all was good again.  I then rebooted into Win2k to
> test it.  I rebooted again to go back to Linux and i received the "waiting
> to exhale.." message from above. I hit "ctrl alt delete" and it says
> "Stopping md devices" and then it reboots.
>
> Google searches for "suse waiting for /dev to appear" talk about changing
> from kernel 2.6.4 to 2.6.5 with YOU.  They also talk about /dev/900
> pointing to /dev/md0 but my error isn't /dev/  I did that but have booted
> into linux many times since then.
>
> Is it possible that the /dev/md is somehow blocking my startup?  Is there
> a way to disable the md with a kernel parameter at startup?
>
> Thanks
> Eric Penne
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