jaunty: initramfs fails to activate root LV

[Simon IJskes]

Binary package hint: initramfs-tools

root is LV on lvm2

boot fails to find root.

manual lvm lvchange -a y /dev/VG01 activates root

and allows boot to continue.

[Jonathan Hudson (jh+lpd)]

Me too.

If only I could remember what the blasted volume was called ......

[Simon IJskes (sim-nyx)]

find the volume first with:

lvm vgs

[Simon IJskes (sim-nyx)]

if the udev rule for lvm is run by typing it manually watershed complains about not able to create /var/run/watershed.

initramfs is missing the /var/run directory

after creating /var/run watershed runs succesfully

(i have not checked the PATH, but used fully qualified binary filename)

[Stefan Bader (smb)]

Avtually "lvm vgchange -ay" should activate all. This is/was a bug in the the hooks for mkinitramfs which failed to create ${DESTDIR}/etc/udev/rules.d as a directory. I know this was already fixed but I am not sure how long it will take to get to the archive.

[Simon IJskes (sim-nyx)]

No,

It is not fixed. my initramfs has a rules.d directory.

The udev rule that runs watershed lvm lvchange -a y is not running properly i guess. (probably because of /var/run missing)