Re: [linux-lvm] Trouble Booting Custom Kernel with QEMU: dracut-initqueue timeout waiting for /dev/sysvg/root

Zdenek Kabelac <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.linux-lvm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dne 30. 08. 23 v 8:40 Vishal Chourasia napsal(a):
> Hi All,
> 
> I hope this email finds you well. I am currently facing an issue with
> booting a VM using a custom-compiled kernel and would appreciate your
> expertise on the matter.
> 

Hi

Not really sure how this relates to 'lvm2' yet - your kernel 'stuck' seems to 
be caused by the inability to switch to 'rootfs'  - which should be located on 
/dev/vda3  (according to your qemu exec line) - but kernel panics
reports that device does not have recognizable filesystem.

There seems to be no lvm2 involved at all so far.


> ### Problem Description
> I have downloaded the `Fedora-Server-KVM-38-1.6.x86_64.qcow2` image and
> successfully booted it using `qemu-system-x86_64`. However, when I try
> to boot this VM with a custom-compiled kernel using the `-kernel` flag,
> it fails to boot. The root filesystem is on LVM, and it seems the kernel
> needs to activate volume groups before mounting the root filesystem.

If you believe the filesystem is really on LVM and your /dev/vda3 is just a PV 
- then your boot line is wrong - and you need to be using different naming -
possibly something like:
root=/dev/vgname/lvrootname rd.lvm.lv=vgname/lvrootname

dracut that needs to include lvm2 code and be able to activate such LV prior 
switch to rootfs  (having somewhere inside  lvchange -ay vgname/lvrootname)

But it's not really clear how have you moved from your /dev/vda3 to
something on top of lvm2...

Regards

Zdenek

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