Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:55:55 -0700 | From | Ben Greear <> | Subject | Re: Problems booting 2.6.31 on Fedora 8 |
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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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