Re: [linux-lvm] No Subject

[Brant Katkansky <lists katkansky org>]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 08:27:18AM -0800, trylinux wrote:

[...]

> I recently used vgrename to rename the volume group (from rootvol to rootvg
> -- just a test to learn some more), and it seemed to succeed. I was able to
> run afterwards with no problems. On the first reboot after this, though, my
> system can no longer boot. Here's a rough transscription of what's going on:

[...]

> Activating logical volumes
> vgchange -- volume group "rootvg" successfully activated
> 
> Mounting root filesystem
> mount: error 2 mounting ext3
> pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrt) failed: 2
> umount /initrd/proc failed: 2
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
> Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

You need to rebuild the kernel initrd if you change your root device,
as the linuxrc script in the initrd has the root device hard-coded.