Sorry... I fixed my problem... though it was likely the same problem (symptoms and workaround were the same), I had forgotten that I had moved / to a separate disk when I ran into problems with LVM in the past... unfortunately I hadn't changed the kopt=root line in my menu.lst to reflect the new location... so everything was changed to point to /dev/mapper/vg-rootlv. Not to mention that I had left the old rootlv in place, so it still tried to boot with it.
As soon as I made the changes to my menu.lst, unsurprisingly, it booted fine... of course my / wasn't on LVM anymore. I knew I had experienced problems with / on LVM before and worked around it... I can't believe I had forgotten something so obvious! That's the one thing I hate about linux servers... because things break so rarely, and because any smart admin knows to not futz with a working server, it's easy to forget what you have done to get the box to where it is! -- [feisty] mounting LVM root broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/83832 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
