>> For the benefit of others affected, the /usr entry in fstab *must* begin >> with /dev/mapper/. My fstab had the /dev/$VG/$LV style and the script >> does not know what to do with that.
> Right, that the lvm2 initramfs code has never supported that naming > scheme for root, and now we have the same problem for /usr. We will > probably make another update to each of initramfs-tools and lvm2 before > release and can either fix or document this. I would like to add that my setup uses UUID, for a long time, and LVM works with this (1), at least for / But for a separated /usr, it do not work anymore :( I get an emergency console and have to manually active my usr LV. (1) ie, in /etc/fstab : UUID=... / ext4 ... UUID=... /boot ext4 ... UUID=... /usr ext4 ... UUID=... /var ext4 ...