lvm unbootable disk

Natxo Asenjo natxo.asenjo at gmail.com
Mon Nov 28 11:00:09 CET 2011


On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Natxo Asenjo <natxo.asenjo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
>
> - boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
> - check rootdelay (did the system wait for the right device?
> - missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
> ALERt! /dev/mapper/pv-root does not exist. Dropping to a shell
>
> this is my disk_config file, I am keeping it to the basics now just to
> have it installed, later I will add other options.
>
> disk_config     disk1   bootable:1
> primary        /boot  500     ext3      rw
> primary        -      4096-   -         -
>
> disk_config lvm
> vg         pv     disk1.2
> pv-swap    swap   2048    swap      rw
> pv-root    /      2048    ext3      rw

solved by adding the lvm2 package to the package_config file. Maybe
this should be documented in the wiki.

-- 
natxo


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