On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:54:29 +0000 Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: > I set up an LVM partitioning scheme on one computer, > with /boot on /dev/sda3 outside LVM . > But grub could not access / because LVM was not activated. > This made me wonder: > > 1. Is there any way of asking grub to activate LVM > (eg run "vchange -a y") before it looks for the / partition? > > 2. Is there any argument one could add to the kernel line > to the same effect? > > In the end I deleted the LVM, and used ordinary partitions, > so the question is purely academic. > I can't answer your question, because I simply don't know the answer; however, I encountered this problem once before. This may just be noise for you. The issue was that grub had gotten confused about which drives were which (as I have a mix of SATA and IDE). After going through BIOS and making sure my drives were properly identified and changing during boot what drive root was on, it booted up like a champ and I've had repeated success over several boots. I do not use Fedora on the machine that this occurred, I have CentOS on that machine. It may have worked for you though. -- ethericalzen@xxxxxxxxx Life is a prison, death is a release
