Bug#521343: Can't repair a lilo+root-on-LVM system

2009-03-30 Thread Bjørn Mork
Holger Levsen writes: >> I thought that, because of the kernel upgrade, I had to run Lilo and >> the problem would go away. > > Uhm, doenst that happen automatically with lilo? Sounds like a bug in lilo to > me. At some point in the past, we got this change in linux-image-.postinst: -my $load

Bug#521343: Can't repair a lilo+root-on-LVM system

2009-03-29 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 17:29 +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > 2009/3/27 Holger Levsen : > > Hi Eddy, > > > > On Freitag, 27. März 2009, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > >> I agree this was user error. Still, recovering from it should be possible. > >> That's what the BR is about. > > > > Well, the problem s

Bug#521343: Can't repair a lilo+root-on-LVM system

2009-03-27 Thread Eddy Petrișor
2009/3/27 Holger Levsen : > Hi Eddy, > > On Freitag, 27. März 2009, Eddy Petrișor wrote: >> I agree this was user error. Still, recovering from it should be possible. >> That's what the BR is about. > > Well, the problem seems to be that your kernel was installed incorrectly... > >> How is it user

Bug#521343: Can't repair a lilo+root-on-LVM system

2009-03-27 Thread Holger Levsen
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Bug#521343: Can't repair a lilo+root-on-LVM system

2009-03-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:36:39PM +0200, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > After reboot I was surprised to see the boot process failing and > dropping me in the initrd shell. More investigation and hours later I > realised that inside the initrd /dev/root was created with major > number 253 while the root LV

Bug#521343: Can't repair a lilo+root-on-LVM system

2009-03-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Eddy, On Freitag, 27. März 2009, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > I agree this was user error. Still, recovering from it should be possible. > That's what the BR is about. Well, the problem seems to be that your kernel was installed incorrectly... > How is it user error when I try to update the initram

Bug#521343: Can't repair a lilo+root-on-LVM system

2009-03-27 Thread Eddy Petrișor
Holger Levsen a scris: > Hi Eddy, > > On Donnerstag, 26. März 2009, Eddy Petrișor wrote: >> Two days ago after upgrading the lenny 2.6.26-1-686 kernel I didn't >> shut down the system, I put it in hibernate. The next day, when I >> powered the computer, it failed to boot right after loading the ke

Bug#521343: Can't repair a lilo+root-on-LVM system

2009-03-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Eddy, On Donnerstag, 26. März 2009, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > Two days ago after upgrading the lenny 2.6.26-1-686 kernel I didn't > shut down the system, I put it in hibernate. The next day, when I > powered the computer, it failed to boot right after loading the kernel > and checking the BIOS wit

Bug#521343: Can't repair a lilo+root-on-LVM system

2009-03-26 Thread Eddy Petrișor
Package: general Severity: important Hello, Sorry for the general bug, but I can't really say which is the appropriate package in this case. Two days ago after upgrading the lenny 2.6.26-1-686 kernel I didn't shut down the system, I put it in hibernate. The next day, when I powered the computer,