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If so, +I've done a few similar updates in the last week or so in VMs and it's +always been OK. I presume you installed the mageia-prepare-upgrade +package from mga2/core/updates_testing, rebooted to the boot menu entry +created by that package before upgrading? + +If so, please detail the process you went through and at which point if +failed so I can debug this process more. I've not had many complaints +about it, and it's worked for a variety of different filesystems +structures for me, so I'm surprised it's failing here. + + + +Regarding the network install based upgrade there may be issues relating +to bootloader config tools (in drakx) that related the use of the blkid +cache which might make it miss the whole LVM volume (I've seen it +manifest itself as putting "root=/dev/" into grubs menu.lst rather than +"root=/dev/mapper/foo"). + +I've fixed the calls in drakxtools, but it'll need a release to +propagate it through to stage2 used there which I don't think has been +done yet. I'll try and prep that tonight. + +><i> * Colin Guthrie (<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>) wrote: +</I>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Dracut gi a shell, It seems 'lvm vgmknodes' has no effect (the swap lv +</I>>>><i> did existed already). +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> In the dracut shell, what does /etc/cmdline.d/lvm.conf say? It should +</I>>><i> contain enough info to brink up both the root and the swap lvm. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> rd.lvm.lv=sagittarius/swap +</I> +OK, so this basically means that only the swap partition is configured +to be activated in the initrd (which is also what you observe so at +least it's behaving at that level!) + +The problem is that dracut itself is not detecting that the LV needs +activating when it runs. + + +In order to get a booting system, just pass "rd.lvm.lv=sagitarius/slash" +on the command line (obviously substituting the real name of your +logical volume). This should make dracut initialise the lvm automatically. + +You should (at least in theory) also just be able to type something like +"lvm vgchange -ay" into the dracut shell, then type exit (perhaps twice) +to continue the boot process. + + +Of course if your grub menu entry has been messed up (root=/dev/) then +you'll need to fix that up too. + +Hopefully that should get you booting. + +Col + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="022944.html">[Mageia-dev] System doen't boot with LVM +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="022946.html">[Mageia-dev] System doen't boot with LVM +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#22945">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#22945">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#22945">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#22945">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |