Can't boot with USB flash reader connected

[Jeffrey Ross]

Just one problem, the first time I took the installation default and set 
a machine up using LVM I now have to specify individual partitions.  :(

Other suggestions?

>I'm guessing that the problem comes when the initrd attempts to mount
>the real root system by filesystem label. The mount command must search
>all disks for partitions in order to find one with the right label. I
>imagine that the card reader is presented to the kernel in such a way
>that there appears to be a device there, but the card reader won't
>return any data until a card is physically inserted.
>
>If I'm guessing correctly, you should be able to boot by device (e.g.
>root=/dev/hda1) instead of by label (e.g. root=LABEL=/). You should be
>able to test this hypothesis by pressing "e" on the Grub menu to edit a
>kernel line, and make the appropriate change. (This will be temporary:
>you'll have to edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to make the change permanent.)
>If you have any other filesystems automatically mounted from /etc/fstab,
>you will probably get as far as where they're mounted, then the load
>will freeze again. This will be the same problem, and the solution is to
>edit /etc/fstab.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>James.
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