severity 355013 normal stop On Thu, 02 Mar 2006, Christian Weeks wrote:
> I use LVM on all my disks. I swapped an old laptop disk into another > laptop for testing and my laptop now fails to boot normally but rather > drops into the busybox. > > An analysis of this problem indicates that there are issues with LILO, > the initramfs and/or the device mapper. > > Here's what appears to be happening. I run lilo, and (after spinning the > CPU for about 30-60 seconds!) it deduces that my LVM disk cweekslap/root > has id FE00 (I am not sure this is correct, however). So it spits this > onto the command line. With a single disk in the laptop we will now boot > correctly. I add in the second disk and at boot time, for some reason, > the secondary disk (helenlap/home!) is now device FE00. Of course > helenlap/home is not a valid root disk (it never was) and the system > drops to busybox when it can't find init. I have recovered the situation > temporarily with one of three fixes: > > 1. Use a boot parameter root=/dev/mapper/cweekslap-root > 2. remount /dev/mapper/cweekslap-root at the /root mountpoint in the initram > disk > 3. recreate the /dev/root with mknod /dev/root b 254 2 ok, adding discs works much better with grub. lowering the severity as lilo is not default. but please become familiar with the carriage return on your keyboard and format mails to ~80 columns. can you paste your lilo.conf? > Nothing is able to work permanently though. I can't make a lilo root= > option stick- it turns into numbers. have you tried to use the append="root=/dev/mapper/cweekslap-root" instead and without the root lilo.conf param? afaik that is the way that is recommended for evms on lilo too see end http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=357538 sorry for the late reply regards -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
