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If so, +</I>><i> I've done a few similar updates in the last week or so in VMs and it's +</I>><i> always been OK. I presume you installed the mageia-prepare-upgrade +</I>><i> package from mga2/core/updates_testing, rebooted to the boot menu entry +</I>><i> created by that package before upgrading? +</I> +Ha, no, I followed the howto on the wiki: +<A HREF="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:UsrMove">https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:UsrMove</A> + +and there is no reference to this package on the page :\ + +><i> Regarding the network install based upgrade there may be issues relating +</I>><i> to bootloader config tools (in drakx) that related the use of the blkid +</I>><i> cache which might make it miss the whole LVM volume (I've seen it +</I>><i> manifest itself as putting "root=/dev/" into grubs menu.lst rather than +</I>><i> "root=/dev/mapper/foo"). +</I> +The entry in grub is fine (just checked it). + +><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>><i> +</I> +><i> The problem is that dracut itself is not detecting that the LV needs +</I>><i> activating when it runs. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> In order to get a booting system, just pass "rd.lvm.lv=sagitarius/slash" +</I>><i> on the command line (obviously substituting the real name of your +</I>><i> logical volume). This should make dracut initialise the lvm automatically. +</I> +This method did work and I am now under linux. + +What can I do to understand why dracut did not detect the lvm to +activate properly (and hopefully fix this definitivelly) ? + +><i> +</I>><i> You should (at least in theory) also just be able to type something like +</I>><i> "lvm vgchange -ay" into the dracut shell, then type exit (perhaps twice) +</I>><i> to continue the boot process. +</I> +This has work except I was unable to enter my passphrase to read my +encrypted /home. + +But it's good to know this is posible. + +-- + +Olivier Thauvin +CNRS - LATMOS +♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖ +-------------- next part -------------- +A non-text attachment was scrubbed... +Name: not available +Type: application/pgp-signature +Size: 836 bytes +Desc: not available +URL: </pipermail/mageia-dev/attachments/20130218/e0963d9c/attachment.asc> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="022945.html">[Mageia-dev] System doen't boot with LVM +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="022947.html">[Mageia-dev] System doen't boot with LVM +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#22946">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#22946">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#22946">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#22946">[ 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> |