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BTW, I left some space to be used later. It's a 250GB HD. After the first boot, I got an error saying something about no volume groups found (refer to the pic). I was hoping there was a silly typo somewhere, so, I repeated the installation a few times and the result is still the same.
Could you guys point me to the right direction to solve this error? Thanks in advance.
I'm not exactly and expert so I may be totally wrong, but your system says something about not being able to mount "/dev/vg01/root" to "/mnt". Shouldn't it be mounting "/dev/vg01/root" to "/" instead? How did you configure your mountpoints during the setup? Could you past your /etc/fstab content (after chroot, of course)?
By the way, I can't type anything during the error. It says I can try to fix it, but I can't type anything and the only thing I can do is powering off the server manually. I'm starting to think there's a typo somewhere, but I've already tried these commands on the same server several times. I've also tried using these same commands (exactly) on my Xen virtual machines (two of them) and surprisingly I can boot without any problems.
if these commands work fine for other computers then it could possibly be a kernel issue. I had a similar issue a few weeks ago (not exactly the same, though; I was installing an encrypted Slackware 13.37 64bit system). The "huge" kernel was responsible for the error, as I found out after switching to the "generic" kernel, which you apparently use. Maybe some newer kernel could do the trick for you.
I hope there's an easier solution but since two other computers work fine after this procedure then my money is on kernel (not to mention you can't write anything to fix the error - your hardware seems not to be properly recognized).
You surely know the procedure - install the system, import the new kernel source, chroot, compile, install, mkinitrd, edit /etc/lilo.conf if needed and run lilo.
I still can't believe those commands won't work on that server. I'll try the installation again in a few days (maybe I'll also try with slackware-current/slackware v14). This time I'll type in letter by letter slowly. There has to be some stupid newbie mistake that I made. In case anyone interested, I'm installing this on Dell R710.
Code:
$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5520 I/O Hub to ESI Port (rev 13)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 13)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 13)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5520/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev 13)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5520/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev 13)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5520/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev 13)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 7 (rev 13)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 9 (rev 13)
00:14.0 PIC: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub System Management Registers (rev 13)
00:14.1 PIC: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub GPIO and Scratch Pad Registers (rev 13)
00:14.2 PIC: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub Control Status and RAS Registers (rev 13)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801IB (ICH9) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801IB (ICH9) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
02:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
03:00.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS (rev 08)
08:03.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G200eW WPCM450 (rev 0a)
fe:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
fe:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
fe:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
fe:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
fe:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Mirror Port Link 0 (rev 02)
fe:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Mirror Port Link 1 (rev 02)
fe:02.4 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series QPI Link 1 (rev 02)
fe:02.5 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series QPI Physical 1 (rev 02)
fe:03.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Registers (rev 02)
fe:03.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Target Address Decoder (rev 02)
fe:03.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller RAS Registers (rev 02)
fe:03.4 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Test Registers (rev 02)
fe:04.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Control (rev 02)
fe:04.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Address (rev 02)
fe:04.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Rank (rev 02)
fe:04.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Thermal Control (rev 02)
fe:05.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Control (rev 02)
fe:05.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Address (rev 02)
fe:05.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Rank (rev 02)
fe:05.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Thermal Control (rev 02)
fe:06.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 2 Control (rev 02)
fe:06.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 2 Address (rev 02)
fe:06.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 2 Rank (rev 02)
fe:06.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon 5600 Series Integrated Memory Controller Channel 2 Thermal Control (rev 02)
I'm using generic kernel and I'm passing -L option when I'm making the initrd. Is there anything else I should do?
Sorry, I wasn't familiar with the -L option, so I guess that covers what I was thinking of, assuming that you have the LVM packages installed.
As asked earlier, what's the contents of /etc/fstab.
You could also take a look at the comments in /etc/rc.d/rc.S regarding how the init process activates LVM, although I'm not sure exactly how that works, if you boot from an LVM partition.
Sorry, I wasn't familiar with the -L option, so I guess that covers what I was thinking of, assuming that you have the LVM packages installed.
As asked earlier, what's the contents of /etc/fstab.
You could also take a look at the comments in /etc/rc.d/rc.S regarding how the init process activates LVM, although I'm not sure exactly how that works, if you boot from an LVM partition.
That doesn't look right, as you should be using the same version kernel and modules. Or was it just a typo.
Cheers.
Ah, sorry about that, I'm pretty sure it's a typo coz usually I'll just use autocomplete whenever it's possible. I'll get back to you in a few hours about the fstab (I assume the fstab after I've chroot, right?). I'll also try this commands again, hopefully I can rule out typo.
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