Post by Tom "spot" CallawayWe're in the process of migrating into Fedora SPARC. Slow, but steady
http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/9-Beta/Fedora/sparc/iso/
I just tried this on an Ultra 10. I had a weird issue with fsck on
bootup. It says /dev/sda is in use, then fails the fsck to the Repair
Filesystem prompt:
fsck.ext3: Device or resource busy while trying to open /dev/sda
Filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program?
I had to edit /etc/rc.sysinit to have it ignore this error just to be
able to boot up the first time...
/dev/sda isn't mentioned in /etc/fstab:
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
UUID=523e895a-22b7-4a7a-80dc-261faf0bd57a /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
But I think the /boot entry is being recognized/mapped to /dev/sda
somehow. It doesn't mount on bootup, and trying to mount it manually:
[***@sun ~]# mount /boot
mount: /dev/sda already mounted or /boot busy
I think this is because Anaconda messed something up with the
partitioning. Is there supposed to be free space left at the
beginning of the disk for the Sun Diskabel?
[***@sun ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Detected sun disklabel with wrong version [0x00000000].
Detected sun disklabel with wrong sanity [0x00000000].
Detected sun disklabel with wrong num_partitions [0].
Warning: Wrong values need to be fixed up and will be corrected by
w(rite)
Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1108 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 0 25 200812+ 1 Boot
/dev/sda2 25 1108 8699197+ 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda3 0 1108 8900010 5 Whole disk
And Anaconda decided to make a PV out of the entire /dev/sdb device,
rather than creating a partition table there:
[***@sun ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 13.6 GB, 13601193984 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1653 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table
[***@sun ~]# pvdisplay
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdb
VG Name VolGroup00
PV Size 12.66 GB / not usable 6.53 MB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size (KByte) 32768
Total PE 405
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 405
PV UUID WjtLSC-SAfF-tJ68-3uSK-6Fel-ADak-rbuAuf
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sda2
VG Name VolGroup00
PV Size 8.30 GB / not usable 15.31 MB
Allocatable yes
PE Size (KByte) 32768
Total PE 265
Free PE 2
Allocated PE 263
PV UUID yHmtJ9-2tnJ-2lqL-Smmv-nRSE-4o3m-xom0Zo
[***@sun ~]# vgdisplay
--- Volume group ---
VG Name VolGroup00
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 2
Metadata Sequence No 3
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 2
Open LV 2
Max PV 0
Cur PV 2
Act PV 2
VG Size 20.94 GB
PE Size 32.00 MB
Total PE 670
Alloc PE / Size 668 / 20.88 GB
Free PE / Size 2 / 64.00 MB
VG UUID 0IAvNk-xkKV-Qx1s-HORT-81VY-QL80-sYoX8J
[***@sun ~]# lvdisplay
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
VG Name VolGroup00
LV UUID QSYPCt-sE8r-hAI4-KyV1-1YPg-jAaB-HaEYOP
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 20.38 GB
Current LE 652
Segments 2
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 253:0
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
VG Name VolGroup00
LV UUID Ol3Xpn-son7-yjWa-eEJQ-dWDQ-3Seh-fyAU0p
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 512.00 MB
Current LE 16
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 253:1
This was installed taking all defaults and "remove all partitions and
create a default layout", with zeroed-out blank disks beforehand.
Excerpt of anaconda-ks.cfg partitioning here:
# The following is the partition information you requested
# Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
# here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
# not guaranteed to work
#clearpart --all --drives=sda,sdb
#part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=200 --ondisk=sda
#part pv.5 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sdb
#part pv.4 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sda
#volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.5 pv.4
#logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=256 --grow --maxsize=512
#logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 --grow