William L. Maltby wrote: > On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 09:27 -0400, Ted Miller wrote: > >>I'll admit I am new to LVM2, but I have got myself in a bad spot. >> >>I renamed the LVM volume and volume group so that I can keep track of what >>is in them. I have changed grub's menu.lst, /etc/fstab, and /etc/mtab, but >>somewhere else there is still something telling lvm that my root drive is >>on VolGroup00. Where is it, and how do I convince it that >>VolGroup00/Volume00 (or whatever the defaults are) is now DriveC/Centos? I >>suspect it may be hiding in initrd (compressed). > > Yep. Fortunately, thats a cpio file. So uncompress, go to tmp make a > work dir and "cpio -idmvc -I <your uncompressed file name>". I tried this, but I get the message: [root at Office2 /home/tmiller/tmp/centos01]$cpio -idmvc -F /media/centos/boot/initrd-2.6.9-34.EL.img cpio: premature end of file No files show up in the directory. Any ideas appreciated. Doing this in Mandrake 2006.0. Ted Miller > Then cd > into the dir and find . -name init. Edit that file. There's two > "ingnorelockingfailure" imperatives in there. One of them names the > volgroup. Add yours to the list (comma, IIRC - use the man page if there > is one). > > Then cpio it back up by using the -c param and compress it. > > Bill