Re: Problems booting 2.6.31 on Fedora 8

[Nikita V. Youshchenko]

> I'm having troubles booting 2.6.31 on Fedora 8.  The same kernel
> boots fine on F11, but on F8, it cannot find the root logical volume.
>
> One thing I notice is that F11 uses root=/dev/mapper... and F8 uses
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 in grub.  It's not clear to me what
> the value of mapper should be...is there some way to figure this
> out from an older kernel (2.6.29) that boots fine?

I've recently faced a very similar problem, trying to boot some "modern" 
kernel on debian etch system.

It was solved by putting more recent lvm2 binary into initrd.

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