Bug 209473
| Summary: | mkinitrd --rootdev LABEL=foo doesn't work as expected | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Mark McLoughlin <markmc> | ||||
| Component: | mkinitrd | Assignee: | Peter Jones <pjones> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | hdegoede, k.georgiou, martin.wyser, triage | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
| Whiteboard: | bzcl34nup | ||||||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2009-02-04 21:17:53 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Mark McLoughlin
2006-10-05 15:24:12 UTC
I have a similar problem with FC5 2.6.17.1.2145, where init in the initrd contains the lines resume LABEL=SWAP-hda2 mkrootdev -t ext3 -o defaults,ro hda1 After changing the partition numbers, this causes problems. The hda1 is especially troublesome, as the kernel is started with a root=LABEL=/ parameter, which is just ignored in the initrd. Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported against rawhide during the development of a Fedora release that is no longer maintained. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained. If this bug remains in NEEDINFO thirty (30) days from now, we will automatically close it. If you can reproduce this bug in a maintained Fedora version (7, 8, or rawhide), please change this bug to the respective version and change the status to ASSIGNED. (If you're unable to change the bug's version or status, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.) Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again. I can confirm this bug still exists in RHEL 4 ES U5. I ran into it last week;
specify root as "LABEL=/" in /etc/fstab; watch mkinitrd skip lvm-specific steps
like copying {lvm.static, lvm.conf} and including more than only the dm-mod
module. It seems to me that bugs #212124, #214184, #246626, #294051, #327181 and
#426671 are related to this (not sure if they're strictly dupes).
So, on the one hand this behavior is clearly wrong. On the other, you should still get "root=LABEL=/" in grub.conf , and that overrides mkrootdev's behaviour, so it should still boot. Mark, when you see this, is it actually not booting? Oh, I think I was doing this in the context of stateless iSCSI root ... So, I would have been booting via PXE and wanted the initrd to find the appropriate device based on label, because some systems might have a SCSI disk already (making the iSCSI disk e.g. /dev/sdb) and others might not Pretty vague on the details now, though OK, I /think/ the patch I just applied will solve this for you. Created attachment 303521 [details]
The patch in question.
That patch will be in 6.0.52 . Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping I've just build a new mkinitrd in rawhide (6.0.76) which streamlines the storage device handling somewhat. This should definitely fix --rootdev LABEL= , if not please reopen. |