Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758017AbZIRTb4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:31:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757085AbZIRTbv (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:31:51 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f206.google.com ([209.85.219.206]:51196 "EHLO mail-ew0-f206.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754018AbZIRTbv (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:31:51 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; b=JiKUbuHC3Mo5699n4V6unUzt7d1hARaFhFZbosFhRKIvpyzoYHM51uVwR1jtScrQHn zRkEiEhNY9T1BMYwFXCeBQ8jfbQc+d6o6WCRIjt/OnUr2jnOYEOYJatw79wBRwa60Jsm M0OyJ5u0yZPDNIi86XZK29zFBemTg9XHMz9vI= Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:25:55 -0400 From: Joseph Fannin To: Ben Greear Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: Problems booting 2.6.31 on Fedora 8 Message-ID: <20090918192555.GA4224@nineveh.rivenstone.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ben Greear , linux-kernel References: <4AB3C9A8.4060700@candelatech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AB3C9A8.4060700@candelatech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 785 Lines: 20 On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:55:52AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > 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? Possibly /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 . -- Joseph Fannin jfannin@gmail.com -- 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/