Initial ramdisk does not include the LVM configuration files or binaries

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Issue

  • Server kernel panics at boot time claiming that the root Volume Group cannot be found
Volume Group VolGroup00 not found.
Kernel Panic: attempting to kill init
  • Initial ramdisk does not include the LVM configuration files or binaries
# zcat /boot/<initrd file>.img | cpio -it 2>/dev/null | grep -i lvm
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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

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