On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, Thomas Schweikle wrote: > On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 7:53 PM, Ulf Volmer <u.volmer at u-v.de> wrote: >> On 02.07.2018 18:23, Thomas Schweikle wrote: >> >>> System boots into emergency mode because it does not find any of the >>> logical volumes defined, because it does not enable the LVM volume >>> group. >>> >>> Giving "lvm", then "vgchange -a y", followed by CTRL-D continues to >>> boot to full multiuser mode. >> >> maybe 'rootdelay=5' as kernel parameter will solve this issue. > > No. Even rootdelay=20 does not solve this issue. Volume groups are > just not activated automatically and thus no active volume group is > found and system boots into emergency mode. Simple question is: where > and how are volume groups activated while booting? Any way to make > this system activate those volume groups and not just boot into > emergency mode? Any configuration files? How did you get in this state? Might you want to regenerate your initramfs with dracut? jh