Trouble booting new kernel, can't find VolGroup00

[Kam Leo]

On 3/24/06, Neil Cherry <ncherry at comcast.net> wrote:
> I've successfully installed Fedora 5 on my home machine and I just
> completed a fresh kernel compile (need a few drivers). I left all
> the LVM/RAID stuff turned on but turned off various things I didn't
> need (stuff for laptops, etc). Now when I boot the machine with
> the new kernel I get:
>
> Red Hat nash version 5.0.32 starting
>    Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
>    No volume groups found
>    Unable to find volume group "VolGroup00"
> Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01)
> mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
>
> I basically copied the working grub entry except for the kernel
> and initrd file name (the original kernel still works fine). Here's
> the new entry:
>
> title Fedora Customer kernel (2.6.15-2.2054 FC5)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-2.2054_FC5  ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> rhgb quiet
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.15-2.2054_FC5
>
> Sorry about the wrap. I must be missing some step after I compile,
> install the new kernel.rpm and mkinitrd in boot but I can't figure
> it out yet.
>
> Thanks
>

Append an ".img" to initrd-2.6.15-2.2054_FC5 so GRUB can find it.