linux-kernel - Re: Problems booting 2.6.31 on Fedora 8

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Message-ID: <20090918192555.GA4224@nineveh.rivenstone.net>
Date:	Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:25:55 -0400
From:	Joseph Fannin <jfannin@...il.com>
To:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problems booting 2.6.31 on Fedora 8

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:55:52AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> 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?

Possibly /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 .

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Joseph Fannin
jfannin@...il.com

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