FAI with LVM

Carsten Aulbert carsten at welcomes-you.com
Mon Jan 21 19:51:26 CET 2008



James wrote:

> Oh also on top of the error i pass the entire installation and get the 
> following as well.
> I boot into the new installation and it searches for ROOT filesystem but 
> fails.
> 
> Error =
> 
>            Check root=bootarg cat /proc/cmdline
>            or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
> ALERT! /dev/mapper/lvmtest-root does not exist. dropping to shell!
> 
Blind guess: You are booting a kernel which is not LVM aware? I.e. you 
are using an initrd without LVM support.

HTH

Carsten


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