upgrade to pve-kernal-2.6.24

[dca]

im trying to install the 2.6.24 kernal (for ntfs support as i cant get it to work in 2.6.18)
but after install and reboot i get errors

gave up waiting for root device
ALERT! /dev/mapper/pve-root does not exist.dropping to a shell
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

can still boot into 2.6.18
fresh install "update, upgrade, install kernal and shutdown only commands ran"

system is a dell poweredge t710
2x 500g drives in raid0

thankful for any help

 

[udo]

Hi,
do you have a standard installation?
What is the output of "pveversion -v"?
Do you follow the update instruction? http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Downloads

Any error message at "apt-get upgrade"?

Udo

 

[dca]

do you have a standard installation?

1.5 iso from proxmox site

What is the output of "pveversion -v"?

pve-manager: 1.5-10 (pve-manager/1.5/4822)
running kernel: 2.6.18-2-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.24: 1.5-23
pve-kernel-2.6.24-11-pve: 2.6.24-23
pve-kernel-2.6.24-10-pve: 2.6.24-21
pve-kernel-2.6.18-2-pve: 2.6.18-5
pve-kernel-2.6.24-8-pve: 2.6.24-16
qemu-server: 1.1-16
pve-firmware: 1.0-5
libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-13
vncterm: 0.9-2
vzctl: 3.0.23-1pve11
vzdump: 1.2-5
vzprocps: 2.0.11-1dso2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 0.12.4-1

Do you follow the update instruction? http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Downloads
yes

Any error message at "apt-get upgrade"?
no


tryed to install some of the older 2.6.24 kernals to see if diffrent output

 

[udo]

Hi,
2.6.24-11 run at my test-laptop without problems (here is pvetest enabled, but this change IMHO nothing with the 2.6.24-kernel).

Try a

dpkg-reconfigure pve-kernel-2.6.24-11-pve

are there any error messages?
Output on my test-laptop:

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-11-pve
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.32-2-pve
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.24-11-pve
Found kernel: /memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

What is the output of

grep -v "#" /boot/grub/menu.lst | grep -E ^.

Udo

 

[dca]

dpkg-reconfigure pve-kernel-2.6.24-11-pve

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-11-pve
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.24-11-pve
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.24-10-pve
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.24-8-pve
Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.18-2-pve
Found kernel: /memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

grep -v "#" /boot/grub/menu.lst | grep -E ^.

default 0
timeout 5
color cyan/blue white/blue
title Proxmox Virtual Environment, kernel 2.6.24-11-pve
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.24-11-pve root=/dev/mapper/pve-root ro
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.24-11-pve
title Proxmox Virtual Environment, kernel 2.6.24-10-pve
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.24-10-pve root=/dev/mapper/pve-root ro
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.24-10-pve
title Proxmox Virtual Environment, kernel 2.6.24-8-pve
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.24-8-pve root=/dev/mapper/pve-root ro
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.24-8-pve
title Proxmox Virtual Environment, kernel 2.6.18-2-pve
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-2-pve root=/dev/mapper/pve-root ro
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.18-2-pve
title Proxmox Virtual Environment, kernel memtest86+
root (hd0,0)
kernel /memtest86+.bin

 

[udo]

Hi,
looks fine for me.
The error occur also after kernel-reconfigure?
The failed root device looks like missing lvm-support in the initramfs.. but this is very strange.
What is output of

apt-cache policy lvm2
apt-cache policy initramfs-tools
grep MODULES /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf

Udo

 

[dca]

The error occur also after kernel-reconfigure?
yes

looking in /dev while in initramfs i did not see any drives/partitions,including /boot.
but i do see some lvm commands that do look to work, if there was a block device.

apt-cache policy lvm2

lvm2:
Installed: 2.02.39-7
Candidate: 2.02.39-7
Version table:
*** 2.02.39-7 0
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

apt-cache policy initramfs-tools

initramfs-tools:
Installed: 0.92o
Candidate: 0.92o
Version table:
*** 0.92o 0
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

grep MODULES /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf

# MODULES: [ most | netboot | dep | list ]
MODULES=most

 

[udo]

Hi,
take a little bit time to boot in initfs...
I see devices in /dev/mapper (pve-root, pve-data...) and dmesg show output about sda "sda1 sda2".

Perhaps your mainboard are too new, so that the driver for the disk are not backported to 2.6.24?
For 2.6.18 are a lot of backports... only a guess.

Udo

 

[dca]

ls /dev/mapper/
control

dmesg
(nothing about 'sda')