Re: Lenny 5.0 i386 Install with LVM Cannot Reboot
Ferenc Wagner wrote:
Peter McGill <peter@artificerscircle.org> writes:
Appears to install fine, but boot after install fails.
Volume group "debian" not found.
The above line repeats after a time.
This repeat is somewhat strange, but anyway...
Ok, so I booted again to try your suggestions...
Here is a more detailed bootup sequence.
My SCSI Adapter is detected by the kernel.
Running /scripts/init-premount ...
Mounting root filesystem ...
device-mapper
Volume group "debian" not found
Volume group "debian" not found
Waiting for root filesystem ...
About 1 second later My SCSI hard disk is detected by the kernel.
sda: sda1 sda2
Then about 3 minutes go by and it gives up and drops to the shell.
Gave up waiting for root device.
ALERT! /dev/mapper/debian-root does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
Then a while later the following is reported.
ALERT! /dev/mapper/debian-root does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
What happens if you invoke
vgchange -ay
in this shell? If it activates the volume group, exit the shell and
see if it boots up.
It also seems to not be loading the usb keyboard driver cause I cannot
type anything at the shell. I plugged in a PS/2 temporarily to run the
commands.
vgchange -ay does not appear to do anything.
cat /proc/cmdline
root=/dev/mapper/debian-root ro
I rebooted and using grub's online editing feature added rootdelay=5
It booted fine then. Then I updated grub so rootdelay=5 is default.
Appears to boot consistently now, thanks for the help.
Peter
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