Bug#566965: No way to boot using UUIDs

2010-06-26 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. Regarding the bug itself. It seems that the initramfs-script simply misuses the root= kernel parameter. AFAIK, the device specified at root= is simply the finalised device where the root-filesystem itself is found. So e.g. /dev/sda1 if it's directly on it,.. or /dev/vg00/lv00 if it's

Bug#566965: No way to boot using UUIDs

2010-01-25 Thread martin f krafft
Package: lvm2 Version: 2.02.54-1 Severity: normal The lvm2 initramfs scripts insist on the root= argument to the kernel following certain patterns. Specifically, if the device is not (fe[0-9]*|/dev/root|/dev/mapper/*) then the script will exit without running vgchange. This makes it impossible to