mkinitrd fails: cannot find lvm device

[Ben Steeves]

On 8/6/05, qwertz <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> I don't have RAID or LVM installed (at least I'm not aware of it) but I
> ran into the same problem when trying to install
> linux-image-2.6.10-5-k7. The problem was that I edited /etc/fstab so
> that devices are not specified with the device name /dev/hdaX but via
> ext2/3 partition labels using the LABEL=XYZ construct. Obviously,
> Ubuntu's mkinitrd doesn't understand this. So I changed this for the
> root partition back to its device name, and the package installed
> without problems.

Interesting... same symptom, but a different problem (or aspect of the
same problem), as my /etc/fstab is using device node names, not
labels.

The problem seems to have resolved itself after a reboot, though.  I
hate it when that happens!
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