Soren Hansen writes ("[Bug 85617] root on lvm on ide disks (not raid) broken"): > When using lvm, /dev/root is a non existing device mapper device, and > hence trying to read from it does not trigger loading ide-generic and > hence booting fails.
This is a misconfigured bootloader. You instead of root=/dev/mapper/vg-lv you need to pass append="root=/dev/mapper/vg-lv" Could you please try reconfiguring your grub/lilo ? Thanks, Ian. -- root on lvm on ide disks (not raid) broken https://launchpad.net/bugs/85617 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs