On Wednesday 11 January 2006 03:11, you wrote:
> can you say what was the exact boot failure?
> what where the last messages on the console..

SCSI, CDROM and USB have been loaded.
Begin: Mounting root file system...
Begin: Running /scripts/local-top
Done.
ALERT! /dev/mapper!Debian-root does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

> any additonal hint about what module i-t failed to load?
> cat /proc/modules
ide_cd
cdrom
ide_generic
uhci_hcd
usbcore
sd_mod
piix
generic
ide_core
pcnet32
mii
mptspi
mptscsih
mptbase
scsi_mod
thermal
processor
fan

> what were the boot args?
> cat /proc/cmdline
root=/dev/mapper!Debian-root ro

The problem seems to be in the "!". The lvm script expects "/" there.
This means the vg is not recognized properly and therefore the modprobe 
for dm-mod and the vgchange are not executed.

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