On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This might be unavoidable. > > Try lvmwait=/dev/sdXY on the command line, where sdXY is the partition > that holds the LVM PV. So you're saying that Linux 3.5 didn't introduce any bugs, but simply boots up so fast that the disk isn't initialized yet by the time the initrd tries to activate LVM? Couldn't this be fixed in initrd to try again every second for 5 seconds or so, if the root device hasn't appeared? (Or maybe monitoring udev events, although that sounds much more complicated) Regards, Marti