Debian, lilo and LVM won't boot

[Tony Baechler]

Kerry Hoath wrote:
> Perhaps the people on irc.freenote.net or similar can help;
>   

OK, but since that machine currently can't access the network, that 
would be difficult.

> I use mkinitramfs to generate my initial ram disks and you need devmapper 
> support in the kernel you're trying to boot lvm on.
>   
How do you generate your ramdisks? What commands, modules, etc. I always 
use update-initramfs because it's the official solution suggested and 
installed with Debian, but I don't mind making my own if it solves the 
problem.

> Perhaps the speakup kernel is badly configured no idea.
>   


I'm using the standard Debian kernel 2.6.25-2-686, so I'm not sure what 
you mean. It uses Speakup modules, also standard supplied with Debian. 
It has no problem adding my LVM volumes on boot, it just won't mount 
/dev/mapper/main-root as my root device under /root in the initramfs 
image like it's supposed to. I can do it manually and it works fine. I 
specifically told it to add the xfs and dm_mod mdoules.