So I'm trying to debug a problem with my Dell Latitude booting in EFI mode, that looks like a "can't find the initrd", when I stumbled across this:
<4>[ 2.831325] VFS: Cannot open root device "mapper/turing--police-froot" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6 <4>[ 2.831329] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: <4>[ 2.831338] 0800 488386584 sda driver: sd <4>[ 2.831344] 0801 305368 sda1 5288e82d-f5e3-4f57-a7f9-e29f87149240 <4>[ 2.831348] 0802 3150112 sda2 42eb87e8-1e6a-477e-8b66-2255ac98b27d <4>[ 2.831351] 0803 512000 sda3 6c7a5919-61bc-498e-b26a-9c2aa27e65d1 <4>[ 2.831355] 0805 293795840 sda5 52e421a3-78df-48ac-877f-9362b50af20f <4>[ 2.831358] 0806 4100096 sda6 ebaf21a2-a1aa-4685-8788-e962b6aad18c <4>[ 2.831364] 0b00 1048575 sr0 driver: sr Note the entry for sda6. Boot a Fedora kernel, and: # fdisk -l /dev/sda WARNING: fdisk GPT support is currently new, and therefore in an experimental phase. Use at your own discretion. Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk label type: gpt # Start End Size Type Name 1 16072 626807 298.2M Linux filesyste Linux filesystem 2 626808 6927031 3G Microsoft basic Microsoft basic data 3 6928384 7952383 500M Linux filesyste Linux filesystem 5 7954432 595546111 280.2G Linux LVM Linux LVM 6 595546112 976773134 181.8G Linux LVM Linux LVM Any ideas why the size discrepancy? (No, this probably not relevant to my original issue - my root is on the LVM on sda5, which is OK, and the problem is the initrd doesn't fire up at all)
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