Re: [OT][SOLVED]Grub does not recognize lvm physical volume by uuid after restart
On 20140325_180539, André Nunes Batista 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.
>
> Since I could not figure out if it was bug #616689 or #741652 (initramfs
> or grub), I've replied both and I guess any further debugging better be
> handled on one of those than here. So problem solved.
>
> and John, I do not need assistance with SGD, thank you, it worked just
> as expected.
> --
> André N. Batista
> GNUPG/PGP KEY: 6722CF80
>
I've been following (lurking?) this thread hoping to improve my
knowledge of the boot process. I've never heard of SGD. What is it?
Google thinks it is a genetic or protein sequence database which is
surely not what you are talking about.
Cheers,
--
Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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