Unmountable EXT4 Logical VOlume

[Rick Stevens]

Tobias Vinteus wrote:
> Hi, I recently installed Fedora 10 and converted my Ext3root partition to
> Ext4 ackording to the Ext4 HOWTO. Now the volume cannot be mounted, or
> even seen, as no devices show up - only the physical (/dev/sda7). LVM
> shows the presence of the volume group and it's logical volumes. vgmknodes
> doesn't have any effect.
> 
> I'm thinking I could somehow reverse the test_fs flag, or do an e2fsck,
> provided that I know the offset of the superblock. 
> Could someone kindly assist me here? Can I still save dthe day? :-)

Did you make sure the initrd for the booting kernel has the ext4 
filesystem in it?
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