On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 20:39 +0100, Joe wrote: > On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:05:39 -0300 > André Nunes Batista <andrenbatista@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 14:15 -0300, André Nunes Batista wrote: > > > On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 12:36 +0000, Darac Marjal wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:17:17PM +0000, Joe wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:17:53 +0000 > > > > > Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Now, I'm not certain about this, but I suspect that either the > > > > > > initramfs hasn't recognised that I'm using LVM, or it just > > > > > > isn't starting the LVM on its own. > > > > > > > > > > > > I haven't actually investigated this, but it might be related > > > > > > to bug #616689. > > > > > > > > > > Except... both the OP's initramfs and mine do recognise the swap > > > > > partition within LVM, but not any others. > > > > > > > > > > And my system is (apparently) OK after downgrading grub from > > > > > the latest version. > > > > > > > > Ah. Sorry for the noise, then. > > > > > > > > > > Your answer proved not be noise at all. I tried to follow Joe's > > > steps and downgraded grub2-common, grub-common, grub-pc and > > > grub-pc-bin all to jessie (2.00-22), ran update-grub2 and then > > > grub-install /dev/sda and lost my grub.cfg. > > > > > > I've restored it using supergrubdisk, which, when booting, gave me > > > access to that previous initramfs shell. Then I ran vgchange -ay > > > ^D, ^D and was able to boot the system. > > > > > > One thing caught my eye through the process: grub says it's > > > generating configs for i386 only, but this machine uses amd64 > > > kernel. As soon as I get the chance I'll read #616689 and try to > > > investigate it further on this machine. Currently it only boots > > > through this forced activation method you taught me. > > > > > > > I'm marking this thread as solved as I finally got to restore the > > system boot process. To anyone who may care, after booting the OS as > > described above, I once again reconfigured grub packages, keeping it > > downgraded to 2.00-22, as suggested by Joe. After that I could > > update-grub2 and got no complaints when installing to /dev/sda. > > > > Grub2 2.02~beta2-8 packages now available in sid, booting OK for me. Less is more, Joe! I confirm that upgrading to grub2 2.02~beta2-8 also solves the my machine. -- André N. Batista GNUPG/PGP KEY: 6722CF80
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