Problem booting with a LVM root after installing a client with FAI on debian ETCH

[Michael Tautschnig]

> Hello,
> 
> I have installed a new system using fai version 3.2.8 on a debian ETCH, the
> partition use LVM.
> Everything install but when i boot the new system it's blocking for some
> time on "Waiting for root filesystem..." then i got an error:
> 
> ALERT! /dev/mapper/my_pv-_root does not exist
> 
> I then get a initramfs shell, from this shell I discovered that i don't have
> /dev/mapper so lvm is not initialised.
> /scripts/local-top contain a lvm script file, this file is refering to
> /sbin/vgchange but this file is not existing on my initramfs filesystem...
> 
> I try to figure out without success why mkinitramfs don't copy vgchange when
> building the initramfs...
> 
> I am stuck here..
> 

- Did you install lvm2 onto your FAI client?
- Did you run update-initramfs -k all -u at in one of your scripts?

Best,
Michael

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