linux-image-2.6.12-6-686 installs initrd unbootable by LILO

[Jan]

On my machine the boot process stalls in initrd after a message.
"volume group "303" not found dropping to a shell"
The variable ROOT is set to "303", but one can manully mount
the real root (/dev/hda3 in my case) without any problem.
Apparently this initrd does not understand LILOs way of telling
the kernel the root device. Specifiyng explicitly "Linux root=/dev/hda3"
on the LILO boot prompt saves the situation and enables normal boot.

using linux-image-2.6.12-6-686 version 2.6.12-6.10 and
lilo version 1:22.6.1-6.2ubuntu1 on Ubuntu breezy.

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto (fabbione)]

Jeff can you comment on this one? I am not even sure lilo is initramfs aware..

[Jeffrey Baker (jwbaker)]

Confirmed. With LILO and the new packages I also get volume group 804 not
found. my root device is on sda4.

[Gabriel Wicke (lists-wikidev)]

I can confirm this. 2.6.12-6.7 however works fine, so something between .7 and
.10 might be the culprit.
The same problem appears in 2.6.12-7, for me the last working kernel is 2.6.12-6.7.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 19609.