[CentOS] LVM, SATA controllers and BIOS devices

Chris Boyd cboyd at gizmopartners.com
Tue May 12 20:15:46 UTC 2009


On May 12, 2009, at 12:32 PM, William L. Maltby wrote:

> There is another possibility? Grub installs a stage2 (IIRC) file that
> has specific device in it. That's probably your next point of  
> failure (I
> don't recall what your original failure mode was).

The system boots, grub menu starts, counts down and then starts  
booting the next stage.  Then the kernel panics after sitting at "Red  
Hat Nash" for a bit. Apparently it can't find one of the LVM disks and  
so can't mount root.

--Chris




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