Boot Problem after Crash

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Fri Mar 14 14:56:04 UTC 2008


On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 01:17:39AM -0300, Tony Abou-Assaleh wrote:
> After spending hours and hours reading the forums, I found one posting 
> where a similar problem was solved by installing lvm2. For me, lvm2 was 
> already installed but generating new initrd files and even installing 
> new kernels only made things worse. However, after reading this post, I 
> tried the following command from a rescue chrooted shell:
> 
> --
> # dpkg-reconfigure lvm2
> Backing up any LVM2 metadata that may exist...done.
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-386
> --
> 
> I tried rebooting with this new initrd and boom! Problem solved.
> 
> Thanks for your assistance Lennart and Tyler, it helped me look in the 
> right direction.

So the initrd did have some problem then.  Odd but at least it was
fixed.

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