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[Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno AT gmail.com>]

On 07/Mar/2016 18:26, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Fábio Roberto Teodoro <fr.teodoro AT gmail.com>:
> 
> >Hi. I am trying to install sourcemage using lvm as its root partition. I
> >have followed the instructions in
> >http://wiki.sourcemage.org/Install_Source_Mage_LVM2.html but it seems
> >outdated, as I keep getting errors at boot. There is some newer
> >documentation on how to do this? I am using this chroot image:
> >http://download.sourcemage.org/image/official/smgl-stable-0.61-basesystem-x86_64.tar.bz2
> >
> >The error I am geting says it "Cannot open root device 'ram0' or
> >unknown-block(0,0)".
> >
> >Any help is appreciated.
> >
> >Thank you.
> >
> >--
> >Fábio Roberto Teodoro
> 
> Hi Fábio, sorry about the delay in response. You'll want to contact our
> SM-Discuss mailing list (added to this reply) or our team on IRC
> (irc.freenode.net/#sourcemage).

That documentation is *very* outdated.

Newer kernels do things a little bit differently, basically they ignore the
"root=" option when booting from an initramfs (you should not be using a true
initrd), but it still serves a purpose, albeit a different one, as it's
normally used by the initramfs' scripts to select the filesystem to pivot to.
The simplest way to use it is to specify your rootfs' UUID.