I could not mount a LVM mirror partition to where I wanted to move /home at boot. The boot process asked to enter a rescue system by entering the root password. The errors reported where:
- the UUID of the mirror I had put in /etc/fstab was now unknown
- the corresponding LVM device /dev// was missing (not built at boot by udev)
- dmesg reported:
md: personality for level 1 is not loaded!
Each sub partition of the mirror was previously built on a different SSD Intel disk of the same model with no problem. The UUID found by blkid was put in /etc/fstab.
After many trials and errors I managed to solve this by rebuilding initramfs (1) with additional modules, changing the order of the hooks (2) and adding a parameter to grub command line (3). One can do this in single-user mode if the boot is very much impaired. Here are the details.
- Initramfs
Add the following modules to the MODULES= line in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
- vmd
- dm-raid
- dm-mod
- raid1
It reads now:
MODULES=“crc32c-intel vmd dm-raid dm-mod raid1”
I am not sure if everything is needed. vmd and raid1 are definitely needed.
- HOOKS
In the same file, on the HOOKS= line, change the order to put block before autodetect
Not sure if it helped.
- GRUB
I added
nvme_load=YES
at the end of the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub
After the changes one need to to rebuild initramfs:
mkinitcpio -P
And rebuild grub:
grub-install
Before rebooting
Hope it helps somebody 