Bug#712999: linux-image-3.9-1-amd64: Unable to find LVM volume

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 08:09:47PM -0400, A. Maitland Bottoms wrote:
> I think I was just bit by this bug.
> 
> Getting from wheezy-backports today,
> initramfs-tools                       0.112~bpo70+1
> linux-image-3.9-0.bpo.1-amd64         3.9.6-1~bpo70+1
> 
> I found that adding rootdelay=1 to the grub boot kernel argument list
> was enough to get linux-image-3.9-0.bpo.1-amd64 to boot.
> 
> My system is AMD64 Phenom II with 6.0 Gbps SATA and SSD,
> I suppose too fast for the kernel lvm finding logic without
> the rootdelay parameter set. (Then again, stock wheezy
> linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 3.2.46-1 boots just fine
> without that parameter sepecified.)

I can confirm this as well: I tried installing 10-pre7 on four
different systems, which could run/boot with the Wheezy 3.2 kernel
and two out of the four needed at least a rootdelay of 1.

Cheers,
        Moritz