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SubjectRe: Problems booting 2.6.31 on Fedora 8
On 09/18/2009 11:48 AM, Nikita V. Youshchenko 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?
>
> 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.

The LVM2 mailing list gave me another answer:

Compile with
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2=y


This will likely not work on later distributions, but seems to work
fine for Fedora 8, at least.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com



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