Boot problems

[gschaefr at comcast.net]

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: John Hubbard <ender8282 at yahoo.com>
> I have been trying to get suspend/wakeOnLan to work on my server.  After 
> a failed suspend when I tried to boot back up I get:
> Loading, Please wait...
>         Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline
>         or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
>   Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
>   Founr volume group "lvm" using metadata type lvm2
> ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/xxx does not exist.  Dropping to a shell!
> 
> BusyBox v1.1.3 (Devian 1:1.1.3-5ubuntu12) Built in shell (ash)
> Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. 
> 
> (initramfs)
> 
> 
> So the questions are what did I do to break everything, and what do I 
> need to do to fix it?
> 
> I am a little confused why it cares about LVM for boot.  The LVM drive 
> is used a media share mounted as /srv.  My main drive sda has 
> sda1=/boot, sda2=/, sda3=swap, sda4=/home.  I don't know if this helps. 
> Thanks. 
> 
> -- 
> -john
> 
The first thing I would do is unplug the LVM drive, to take it out of the
whole picture, then try again. That would give a clearer set of symptoms.
You won't need it until the other drive is working anyway, so it's "noise".

Jerry