System does not boot after removing /dev/vgname/usr lv.
Issue
- System doesn't boot and hangs with following messages after removing
/dev/mapper/vg00-usrlv and reboot.
[ 134.030401] rhel7-alpha dracut-initqueue[262]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts
[ 134.802320] rhel7-alpha dracut-initqueue[262]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts
[ 135.357831] rhel7-alpha dracut-initqueue[262]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts
[ 200.860633] rhel7-alpha dracut-initqueue[262]: Warning: Could not boot.
[ 200.919676] rhel7-alpha systemd[1]: Received SIGRTMIN+20 from PID 263 (plymouthd).
[ 200.923243] rhel7-alpha dracut-initqueue[262]: Warning: /dev/vg00/usr does not exist
- Followed below steps to remove
/dev/mapper/vg00-usrlv
- boot system to rescue mode
$ mount /dev/mapper/vg00-root /mnt
$ mkdir /mnt/user2
$ mount /dev/mapper/vg00-usr /mnt/usr2
$ mv /mnt/usr2/* /mnt/usr/
- rebooted system and it comes up properly.
- then verified that lv is not in open starte using `lvs` and removed lv using `lvremove`.
$ lvrmeove /dev/mapper/vg00-usr
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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