From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753535AbXDIQNY (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 12:13:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753536AbXDIQNY (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 12:13:24 -0400 Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.42]:37758 "EHLO vms042pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753535AbXDIQNX (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 12:13:23 -0400 Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:12:53 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Subject: Re: plain 2.6.21-rc5 (1) vs amanda (0) In-reply-to: <1176134386.4767.4.camel@dillow.idleaire.net> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Dave Dillow , ray-gmail@madrabbit.org, Ingo Molnar , amanda-hackers@amanda.org, amanda-users@amanda.org Message-id: <200704091212.55073.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Organization: Organization? very little MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <200704010100.19016.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <200704091133.44684.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <1176134386.4767.4.camel@dillow.idleaire.net> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 09 April 2007, Dave Dillow wrote: >On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 11:33 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >I'm not sure I could argue for that to be reverted, so here's a >> > possible workaround for Fedora -- completely untested. >> > >> >Add the following to /etc/modprobe.conf: >> >options dm_mod major=253 >> >> This does not work. > >Hmm, it worked for me when I tested it this weekend. I did use 'dm-mod' >instead of 'dm_mod'. > As I note it says in a make xconfig help snapshot. I dutifully copied it with a copy/paste. But since I'm mounting / as an LVM I expect that to be a little late although I am building it as a module, but the module is being autoloaded by the kernel from the initrd. I had better double-check that line in grub.conf again. Thanks for the hint. >This was using it on FC6, and LVM isn't loaded until after the initrd >finishes, as I don't use LVM at all. Everything was compiled as modules. > >I cannot vouch for it working in the initrd, as I don't have a machine >that uses LVM for the root. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Evil is that which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake. -- H.L. Mencken