Hi, I recently did a sid dist-upgrade, and could no longer boot using linux-image-2.6.30-2-686-bigmem kernel and had to boot off an old 2.6.26 kernel.
The reason is that gnome-control-center and other gnome stuff bring in devicekit-disks and 1. lvm2 requires dmsetup 2. devicekit-disks conflicts with dmsetup 3. gnome-control-center and other gnome crap need devicekit-disks 4. so lvm2 and dmsetup get kicked out to rc status 5. then you can't boot with your kernel if / is on lvm2 and / on lvm2 is a prominent choice in the standard debian lenny install disk. I got /dev/sda1 as ext2 /boot and the rest of the install on /dev/sda2 as physical volume. First I thought the problem was initramfs-tools, but it is not. Even if I force the the initrd-img to contain the dm_mod modules with entries in /etc/mkinitrd/modules the system still does not boot. This is a problem. To solve it temporarily: apt-get install dmsetup lvm2 will kick out lots of gnome stuff but i use stumpwm anyway :) Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
