reassign grub thanks
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Frans Pop wrote: > retitle 347482 Does not support "!" separator in /dev/mapper names > severity 347482 important > thanks > > On Wednesday 11 January 2006 03:44, you wrote: > > > 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. > > If I change the "!" to "/" in grub's menu.lst, the system reboots fine. > I would guess though that the "!" is an accepted delimiter and should be > supported. > > Actually, grub has the following options in its menu.lst: > # kopt=root=/dev/mapper/Debian-root ro > # kopt_2_6=root=/dev/mapper!Debian-root ro > > It could well be that the same goes for RAID (or anything that > uses /dev/mapper)! the convert linux function in update-grub needs to be fixed to exclude /dev/mapper/* -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]