Debian, lilo and LVM won't boot

[Kerry Hoath]

I think you specify the root device as

/dev/lvgroup/lvvolume
so I have
/dev/gotss/gotss-usr

If you don't specify the volume group name the initrd has no idea you want 
to initialize lvm;
apart from that I am sorry mine works and I run ubuntu without speakup so no 
further ideas.

Regards, Kerry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: Debian, lilo and LVM won't boot


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.
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