lvm unbootable disk

Natxo Asenjo natxo.asenjo at gmail.com
Thu Nov 24 12:10:57 CET 2011


On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Natxo Asenjo <natxo.asenjo at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> testing lvm for our installation I used this config file:
>
> disk_config sda bootable:1
> primary        /boot  500     ext3      rw
> primary        -      4096-   -         -
>
> disk_config lvm
> vg             my_pv  sda2
> my_pv-_swap    swap   2048    swap      sw
> my_pv-_root    /      2048    ext3      rw
>
> which is exactly the config in the simple lvm example in the
> setup-storage man page.
>
> The system is after installation unbootable:
>
> gave up waiting for root device
>
> ALERT!!! /dev/mapper/my_pv-root does not exist, dropping to shell
>
> what am I doing wrong?

does anybody have a working config for lvm setup-storage with one
disk? This is on on a vmware vm, but that should not matter.

TIA,

-- 
natxo


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