Amos Shapira wrote: > On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Ted Miller <tedjeanmiller at sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> I finally got 5.1 to boot after install (install couldn't keep the disk IDs >> from getting crossed up, so at reboot partitions were not where install >> said they would be). >> >> I needed to compile vmware and nvidia modules, but decided to upgrade >> first. Told yumex to upgrade everything. >> >> When I went to reboot the VG with / on it is not seen by the kernel. (root >> partition is LVM on top of RAID 1). If I go back to the old kernel >> everything boots fine. On the new kernel only the VG on sdc is seen by LVM. >> >> 1. How do I persuade the new kernel to notice the VG with my root partition >> on it. > > Not sure this is related but I suppose a "vgscan" wouldn't hurt, would it? Kind of hard to do a vgscan when a kernel panic occurs after about 20 lines of boot messages. As soon as it tries to pivot mount the root directory I get a kernel panic, because the root partition is on the VG it doesn't see. Ted Miller