From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx12.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.17]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p6JJD4DM021974 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:13:04 -0400 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com (cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com [75.180.132.121]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p6JJD3YX030241 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:13:03 -0400 Message-ID: <4E25D73E.9050807@cfl.rr.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:13:02 -0400 From: Phillip Susi MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] Mail etiquette ( was: Fedora 15 lvm root device not found ) Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: LVM general discussion and development , Lee Gold You appear to have sent this message as a reply to my message in the thread with the subject "Help to mount ext3 boot partiton which reports it's LVM2_member when I try to mount it". As a result, it shows up as a reply in that thread, when you really meant to start a new thread. This causes needless confusion and is poor etiquette. In the future, when you mean to compose a new message, please do not reply to an existing one and delete all of the quotations and change the subject line. On 6/29/2011 4:47 AM, Stamper, Brian P. (ARC-D)[Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Inc. (SGT Inc.)] wrote: > I just upgraded a Fedora system from 13 to 15, and now I can't get it > to boot. I'm getting dumped to a dracut shell and getting the error > dm-linear device lookup failed. In the dracut output with debug on, > I see dracut scan my drives, and I see it find my 3 LVs, but it then > tries to do something with them, I get the error, and it then fails > out with root device not found and drops me into dracut. > > Here's the odd thing, booting off the rescue dvd my volumes are fine. > The LVM can be mounted no problem. > > This makes me think that there's something missing from the kernel or > initrd. I can't really figure out what though. I've gone through > the output of lsmod when running from the rescue dvd. I've even > build a few ramdisks including all the modules that I thought might > be related (dm, lvm, mdraid, dmraid, multipath). I tried building > them with mkinitrd -with=module, and I tried again with dracut > -add=modules. No change in results. > > I'm not sure where to go from here. I feel like the system can be > rescued, but I don't know how to work backward through dracut to find > out why it's unable to find my root volume. Any help would be > appreciated. Cross-posting to dm-devel. > > Thanks, -Brian