Yannis Milios wrote:
>> But, what happens if you let the kernel post install scripts do the
>> work or setting up the initrd things?
>
> Initially, I just rebooted from LiveCD and left Grub,kernel and dracut do
> their job with the defaults, but unfortunately, boot process stops at
> initrd (dracut) stage with the following error:
>
> [ 197.768159] localhost.localdomain dracut-initqueue[252]: Warning:
> Could
>
>> not boot. [ 197.821409] localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Received
>> SIGRTMIN+20 from
>> PID 254 (plymouthd).
>> [ 197.822328] localhost.localdomain dracut-initqueue[252]: Warning:
>> /dev/centos/root does not exist
>> [ 197.823044] localhost.localdomain dracut-initqueue[252]: Warning:
>> /dev/centos/swap does not exist
>> [ 197.846807] localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Dracut
>> Emergency
>> Shell...
>> [ 197.870983] localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+21
>> from PID 254 (plymouthd).
>>
>
>
> Then, I'm dropped to dracut shell, where I boot the system by using the
> lvm commands as described to my first post. Once in O/S, I re-create initrd
> by using 'dracut -f -v -a lvm' command and reboot again the system. But
> still I get the same error during boot ...
>
> If you reinstall the latest kernel, does
>
>> it change anything?
>>
>
> This is actually the latest kernel (3.10.0-862.9.1.el7.x86_64) but I
> tried to boot with the second (older) kernel
> (vmlinuz-3.10.0-327.36.3.el7.x86_64), where I got exactly the same error
> during boot.
>
> Clearly, this is not a kernel issue, perhaps not even a dracut (initrd)
> issue, since everything was working fine, before resizing the PV/LV. I
> suspect that something went wrong during that step, but what? As I can
> successfully boot the system manually via dracut, normally everything
> should be ok? no?
>
> What can prevent dracut from activating the 2 LVs (centos/root and
> centos/swap) during initial boot phase ?
>
Suggestion: once it's up, rebuild the initramfs.
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