Re: lvm2 boot failure

[Martin Kraus <martin.kraus@wujiman.net>]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 05:18:34PM +0100, Király László wrote:
> There is a dev directory and within the special files as I expected.
> It's possible that initrd don't try to mount the right filesystem? My  
> lilo.conf:
>
> ubuntu:/# grep -v ^# /etc/lilo.conf
>
> lba32
>
> boot=/dev/cciss/c0d0p1
>
> root=/dev/vg/root
>
>
> bitmap=/boot/sid.bmp
> bmp-colors=1,,0,2,,0
> bmp-table=120p,173p,1,15,17
> bmp-timer=254p,432p,1,0,0
>
> install=bmp
>
>
> prompt
> timeout=50
>
> map=/boot/map
>
> vga=normal
>
> default=linux
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.19.1
>    label="26191"
>    read-only
> image=/vmlinuz
>        label=linux
>        initrd=/initrd.img
>        read-only

instead of that root=/dev/vg/root you may try root=/dev/mapper/vg-root if your
volume group is called vg. otherwise i'm not suer what the problem could be.
you may try to use apped="root=/dev/mapper/vg-root" in the image declaraction.

mk