On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 05:27:54PM -0300, André Nunes Batista wrote: > Hello dear debian users! > > Recently, one jessie notebook I administer went through a forceful > shutdown (holding down the power button) and after that grub cannot see > the lvm physical volume by uuid. After trying to load the volume for > some seconds, it gives the following message and drops to a minimal > initramfs shell: > > Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems: > - Boot args > - check rootdelay=(long enough?) > - check root=(right device?) > - Missing modules > ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/090f9d09g0f9g-xx-xxxxxx does not exist. > Dropping to a shell > > Using this minimal shell I'm able to go to this path and it actually > does not contain any reference to this physical volume. Also, > on /dev/mapper/ there is no reference to the root and home logical > volumes, but there is a reference to the swap logical volume. > > Using a live distribution I had no problem mounting this volume and > accessing its contents, so no real damage, but I would be glad on some > pointers on how to make grub recognize it again. I've tried booting > "by-id" and old school "/dev/sdaX" directly but had no luck. > > It was once installed using the default guided lvm partition from debian > installer.
I've been seeing this issue on a machine I have with root on LVM. My own suspicion is that it's an initramfs problem. I've been working around it by, at the initramfs prompt, entering: $ lvm lvm> vgscan lvm> vgchange -ay lvm> ^D $ ^D and boot-up continues. Now, I'm not certain about this, but I suspect that either the initramfs hasn't recognised that I'm using LVM, or it just isn't starting the LVM on its own. I haven't actually investigated this, but it might be related to bug #616689. > > TIA > > -- > André N. Batista > GNUPG/PGP KEY: 6722CF80 > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1395520074.21009.26.camel@tagesuhu-pc >
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