Bug#409243: fails to boot.

[Mauro Sanna]

Il giorno ven, 09/02/2007 alle 10.39 +0100, maximilian attems ha
scritto:
> reassign 409243 lvm2
> stop
> 
> On Fri, 09 Feb 2007, Mauro Sanna wrote:
> 
> > ii  linux-image-2. 2.6.18+5       Linux kernel 2.6 image on
> > PPro/Celeron/PII/P
> > 
> > I am using sarge and I have installded backport of linux image 2.6.18.
> > When I boot with kernel 2.6.8 it's all ok.
> > When I boot with kernel 2.6.18 it says that it can't find volume group
> > vg00 and waiting for root filesystem.
> > The creation of initrd with kernel 2.6.18 is automatic, I'have tried
> > also update-initarmfs, reboot but the system hangs with the above
> > messages.
> > If you try to install etch using one boot partition and lvm for the
> > remaining disk space you'll see that it don't boot.
> 
> no it does not it's because your lvm2 is still from sarge
> and it be interesting to track the failure down, currently
> i have no other info beside the failure.
> 

I have had this problem after a complete upgrade to etch and I have the
same problem using backported initramfs-tools with backported kernel
2.6.18 or 2.6.17 in sarge. 

> could you add vgscan to your initramfs and check what it is
> saying inside of the rescue shell.
> you'd have to add a following line to the bottom of one hook in
>  /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/ :
> copy_exec /lib/lvm-200/vgchange /sbin

The hooks I have under /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks are:
kernelextras  thermal  udev

In which of these ones I have to add vgscan?