Re: xen not booting from lvm

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On 16 February 2016 at 15:44, Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:
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> David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> writes:
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>> On 16 February 2016 at 14:47,  <gary%duzan.org@localhost> wrote:
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>>> Perhaps try "phy" instead of "raw", and/or "/dev/mapper/vg0-fooarchive"
>>> instead of "/dev/vg0/fooarchive". That's what I use on my xen 4.5
>>> setup. I also use the new style, so "phy:/dev/mapper/vg0-lnx,xvda,w".
>>
>> Wonderful!
>>
>> It looks like using /dev/mapper/vg0-fooarchive rather than
>> /dev/vg0/fooarchive resolves the issue.
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>> I've taken the opportunity to update to the new syntax at the same
>> time, but it was avoiding the symlink which fixed it :)
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> So is there a bug in the implementation?  Why is using a symlink bad?

I wonder if there is some special casing of device vs normal files
which is failing to trigger because of the symlink...