reassign 378344 lvm2 rettitle 378344 provide an howto mv root on lvm2 volume severity 378344 wishlist stop
On Sat, 02 Dec 2006, Sven Luther wrote: > severity 378344 grave > # Upping severity, since this bug makes a PReP d-i install not being able to > # boot in the resulting system. Furthermore, this is a general regression from > # sarge and initrd-tools. > Thanks 378344 is void on the initramfs-tools side. it's about having an documentation for moving root from an disc device to an lvm2 volume. that is definetly not initramfs-tools business. > Max, ... > > When playing with initramfs-tools Motorola Powerstack PReP box, i noticed that > the machine didn't find the root device on reboot. I had chosen a LVM setup, > not sure if this influence the issue. > > I had to give the root=/dev/powerstack/root argument by hand on the kernel > command line, which is less than optimal. great you try to hi-jack a random non related bug. aboves is pretty wrong and a dup of #378332 you need to pass a real lvm2 device instead of the stupid symlink and yes d-i gets that right. you need to pass root=/dev/mapper/vg-lv > I booted into the system, and added ROOT=/dev/powerstack/root, but it would be > nice if this was autodetected, as it is done in both yaird and initrd-tools. > > Furthermore, it would be nice if the ROOT= option would be documented, and an > empty entry would be present in the default config file, like the other > options. Does ROOT=probe also work in initramfs-tools, like it did for > initrd-tools ? no there is no ROOT=probe. ROOT is documented in mkinitramfs.8 -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
