<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> I have a couple of Debian Stable systems, one of which I use primarily as a fileserver. The last time I rebooted (today, as I anticipated a power outage that didn't actually happen), it did not come up. It timed out looking for the root device, then dropped me into the "initrd" shell (BusyBox). I was able to get it to finish booting by starting up "lvm", then giving the command "lvchange -a y /dev/{volume_group}/{root_volume}", then "quit", then "exit" ... but I don't thing I should have to do that! I don't reboot this system every day; in fact my current uptime was something like 45 days. I guess I installed a new kernel, or core utility, or something, and the installation didn't quite run right; any suggestions of what to try reinstalling? I tried "update-initramfs -u" and then a reboot, but still the same problem. Or could it be that the LVM volume group is corrupted somehow? It's only one PV, an "extended" partition on a 750G EIDE disk: <tt># fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000c9cd0 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 19 152586 83 Linux /dev/sda2 20 91201 732419415 5 Extended /dev/sda5 20 141 979933+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 142 91201 731439418+ 8e Linux LVM</tt><tt> # df -h /boot Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 145M 32M 106M 24% /boot</tt><tt> # pvdisplay /dev/sda6 --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sda6 VG Name vgScatha PV Size 697.55 GiB / not usable 314.50 KiB Allocatable yes PE Size 4.00 MiB Total PE 178574 Free PE 54111 Allocated PE 124463 PV UUID ZnCTt7-MAOD-0xgx-MmIf-9bDW-QFO0-6VvHIz</tt> I created a 199G LV last week, and extended another LV by a bit, still have more than 200G unallocated in the VG. Other than that, I don't think I've changed the VG at all since the last reboot. Any suggestions for what to check in this direction? <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- David Lee Lambert (also <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:davidleelambert@yahoo.com">davidleelambert@yahoo.com</a> , <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lamber45@msu.edu">lamber45@msu.edu</a> ) Member IEEE, ACM (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:david.lee.lambert@acm.org">david.lee.lambert@acm.org</a>) - formerly <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:as4109@wayne.edu">as4109@wayne.edu</a> Ph# (616)676-7375, LI profile <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-lambert/12/831/26b">http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-lambert/12/831/26b</a> IM: davidleelambert (Yahoo!) or <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lamber45@cse.msu.edu">lamber45@cse.msu.edu</a> (MSN) </pre> </body> </html>