Upgrade to breezy from hoary makes the system unbootable (using lvm)

Jeff Bailey jbailey at ubuntu.com
Thu Aug 11 13:49:52 CDT 2005


On jeu, 2005-08-11 at 17:28 +0200, Loic Pefferkorn wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Using a freshly installed Hoary (kubuntu), I've tried to dist-upgrade it to 
> Breezy using apt-get dist-upgrade.
> 
> After a reboot the system won't start, I have this after grub :
> 
> [4294672.010000] audit (1123767182.008:0): initialized
> /init: 59: cannot open /sys/bus/scsi/devices/*/types: no such file
> /dev/cdrom: openfailed: no medium found
> /dev/cdrom1: open failed: no medium found
> unable to find volume groups "iron-kubuntu-breezy"
> alert: /dev/mapper/iron-kubuntu--breezy does not exist - dropping to a shell
> 
> Then I have busybox prompt.
> 
> fdisk -l :
> /dev/hda1               1           4       32098+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda2               5       20023   160802617+  8e  Linux LVM
> 
> - /boot : is hda1
> - / is a logical volume kubuntu-breezy inside volume group named iron.
> 
> I think it's a initrd problem, lvm not available to mount root partition ?

lvm is available, but it looks like it's guessing your volume group
incorrectly because of the -'s in the name.  Can you please file this in
bugzilla so that it's tracked correctly?

Thanks!

Tks,
Jeff Bailey




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