On Monday 21 December 2015 15:25:15 Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 04:50:00 -0500 (EST), David Baron wrote: > > Went through all the motions, both ways: On native and chroot. Results > > were the same. Get in that loop of lv not ready messages. Difference: > > Native attempt still needs the IDE plugged in or I get 99 99 99 ... , > > chroot does not. > > > > So, what do I do next? > > Obviously, the LILO map file is on the IDE drive. Is your /boot partition > on the IDE drive? If so, you cannot remove it.
Could he not dd them onto another drive? Obviously not - but why not?? Lisi > The /boot partition must > be a partition on a physical drive, but obviously it cannot be on the drive > that you want to remove. > > The "volume not ready" messages would indicate that LVM2, or some file(s) > needed by it, are not included in the initial RAM file system.