Re: Problems booting 2.6.31 on Fedora 8

From: Joseph Fannin
Date: Fri Sep 18 2009 - 15:32:04 EST


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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