Re: Error mounting LVM volume as root (SOLVED)

2020-10-12 Thread David
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 12:36, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I had not thought that there was any real difference between the two > formats, and this may well be the only instance where there is, but I'm > going to use the '/dev/mapper/vgname-lvname' format in all locations > from here on out. I notice

Re: Error mounting LVM volume as root (SOLVED)

2020-10-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
>     '/dev/vgname/lvname' instead of '/dev/mapper/vgname-lvname'. Indeed, I have found that `/dev//` doesn't work as argument to `root=` on the kernel command line, whereas `/dev/mapper/-` works fine. Maybe it merits a bug report. Maybe it'll be hard/inconvenient to make the kernel accept the

Re: Error mounting LVM volume as root (SOLVED)

2020-10-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 10/11/20 2:04 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 10/11/20 6:34 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: That did it.  I am assuming that the system was just in the process of changing from the initrc to the actual running system?  But how do I get the boot sequence to activate the LVs automatically each time