Re: Boot issue - machine ends up in Busybox

[KS <lists04@fastmail.fm>]

On 16/03/14 02:40 PM, X wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, I upgraded my debian box (unstable) using aptitude and then shut
> it down. On booting, it gave me an alert about a disk it couldn't find
> and brought up the Busybox prompt. I have /boot as a normal partition
> and other partitions (/, /home, /tmp, /usr, /var, etc.) in a LVM group. 
> 
> On checking the LVM partitions, everything seemed to be fine. Then I did
> a lvm vgchange -ay and exit, the machine booted up fine after that. I
> rebooted the machine and had to do the activate the volumegroup again to
> be able to boot!
> 
> Why isn't it able to scan the lvm groups and volumes? Is it something to
> do with systemd?
> 
> The message before it goes to busybox is shown below if it is helpful. 
> 
> ********
> Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
> Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline )
> Check root delay = (did the system wait long enough)
> Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
> Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
> ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/66743620-9332-4a1e-a8b1-933eeab1fd89 does not
> exist.
> Dropping to shell!
> modprobe: module ehci-orion not found in modules.dep
> *********
> 
More system info:
Linux localhost 3.13-1-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.13.5-1 (2014-03-04) i686
GNU/Linux

$> apt-cache policy lvm2
lvm2:
  Installed: 2.02.104-2
  Candidate: 2.02.104-2
  Version table:
 *** 2.02.104-2 0
        500 http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$> apt-cache policy systemd
systemd:
  Installed: 204-7
  Candidate: 204-7
  Version table:
 *** 204-7 0
        500 http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$> sudo /sbin/lvdisplay -c
  /dev/lvm-gp/glvm01:lvm-gp:3:1:-1:2:3899392:476:-1:0:-1:254:0
  /dev/lvm-gp/glvm02:lvm-gp:3:1:-1:1:3899392:476:-1:0:-1:254:1
  /dev/lvm-gp/glvm03:lvm-gp:3:1:-1:1:39059456:4768:-1:0:-1:254:2
  /dev/lvm-gp/glvm04:lvm-gp:3:1:-1:1:9764864:1192:-1:0:-1:254:3
  /dev/lvm-gp/glvm05:lvm-gp:3:1:-1:1:9764864:1192:-1:0:-1:254:4
  /dev/lvm-gp/glvm06:lvm-gp:3:1:-1:1:312500224:38147:-1:0:-1:254:5
  /dev/lvm-gp/glvm07:lvm-gp:3:1:-1:1:97648640:11920:-1:0:-1:254:6