> Upon the next reboot, the initrd ran fine... found and activated the > lv's... but the kernel said "no root partition" and hung. I could > rescue boot the system from the SuSE CD -- everything was there... I > finally added a "vgdisplay -v" to the initrd's linuxrc, and > that showed me the problem. > > The file system it was trying to mount was, to lilo, the device "3a:03" > (major device number 58, minor 3), but, once I'd removed the old lv for > extra disk space, any new vgscan during initrd assigned my new root lv > to minor device number 2. "root=/dev/..." doesn't help, for lvm (it > doesn't like the name). There was no longer an lvm minor device 3 to > mount. This looks like the same problem that I am having, although I haven't removed any logical volumes! I am not 100% sure how to find the device number, but common sense tells me that it is the "Block #" at the bottom of the logical volume information, in which case my root LV is Block # 58:1 > Once I saw the problem, I recue booted and chrooted to my new lvm, and > manually changed the minor number before running lilo. Please can you tell me how you changed this? Cheers, Ben
