Re: [OT][SOLVED]Grub does not recognize lvm physical volume by uuid after restart
On Wednesday 26 March 2014 10:28:06 Paul E Condon wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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,
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/SGD_Howto_Boot
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