On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Frank Cox <theatre at melvilletheatre.com> wrote: > > The most maddening part of this is that all of the files and the filesystems > appear to be present -- I can boot off of a rescue CD and mount the whole works > under /mnt/sysimage and browse to my hearts content. I just can't boot the > damn thing. > > How is a name like /dev/mapper/vg_ws195-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS determined? If I > knew how to read or find out what the actual name of the root directory was on > the problem machines, I could compare it to what's in the grub.conf file. I don't have any idea how to debug LVM stuff. But if you can boot in rescue mode just on general principles I would chroot into /mnt/sysimage, rebuild the initrd and reinstall grub. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com