Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933316AbZIRSs0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:48:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757816AbZIRSsV (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:48:21 -0400 Received: from gate.lvk.cs.msu.su ([158.250.17.1]:41587 "EHLO lvk.cs.msu.su" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757516AbZIRSsU (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:48:20 -0400 From: "Nikita V. Youshchenko" To: Ben Greear Subject: Re: Problems booting 2.6.31 on Fedora 8 Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:48:20 +0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <4AB3C9A8.4060700@candelatech.com> In-Reply-To: <4AB3C9A8.4060700@candelatech.com> Cc: linux-kernel MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200909182248.21032@blacky.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 813 Lines: 18 > I'm having troubles booting 2.6.31 on Fedora 8. The same kernel > boots fine on F11, but on F8, it cannot find the root logical volume. > > One thing I notice is that F11 uses root=/dev/mapper... and F8 uses > root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 in grub. It's not clear to me what > the value of mapper should be...is there some way to figure this > out from an older kernel (2.6.29) that boots fine? I've recently faced a very similar problem, trying to boot some "modern" kernel on debian etch system. It was solved by putting more recent lvm2 binary into initrd. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/