[linux-lvm] Mail etiquette ( was: Fedora 15 lvm root device not found )
Phillip Susi
psusi at cfl.rr.com
Tue Jul 19 19:13:02 UTC 2011
You appear to have sent this message as a reply to my message in the
thread with the subject "Help to mount ext3 boot partiton which reports
it's LVM2_member when I try to mount it". As a result, it shows up as a
reply in that thread, when you really meant to start a new thread. This
causes needless confusion and is poor etiquette.
In the future, when you mean to compose a new message, please do not
reply to an existing one and delete all of the quotations and change the
subject line.
On 6/29/2011 4:47 AM, Stamper, Brian P. (ARC-D)[Stinger Ghaffarian
Technologies Inc. (SGT Inc.)] wrote:
> I just upgraded a Fedora system from 13 to 15, and now I can't get it
> to boot. I'm getting dumped to a dracut shell and getting the error
> dm-linear device lookup failed. In the dracut output with debug on,
> I see dracut scan my drives, and I see it find my 3 LVs, but it then
> tries to do something with them, I get the error, and it then fails
> out with root device not found and drops me into dracut.
>
> Here's the odd thing, booting off the rescue dvd my volumes are fine.
> The LVM can be mounted no problem.
>
> This makes me think that there's something missing from the kernel or
> initrd. I can't really figure out what though. I've gone through
> the output of lsmod when running from the rescue dvd. I've even
> build a few ramdisks including all the modules that I thought might
> be related (dm, lvm, mdraid, dmraid, multipath). I tried building
> them with mkinitrd -with=module, and I tried again with dracut
> -add=modules. No change in results.
>
> I'm not sure where to go from here. I feel like the system can be
> rescued, but I don't know how to work backward through dracut to find
> out why it's unable to find my root volume. Any help would be
> appreciated. Cross-posting to dm-devel.
>
> Thanks, -Brian
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