Bug 484474

Summary:	F11 rawhide x86_64 won't boot after first part of install
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Christian Wilken <drwilken>
Component:	e2fsprogs	Assignee:	Eric Sandeen <esandeen>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	rawhide	CC:	agk, ahecox, bmarzins, bmr, dwysocha, esandeen, heinzm, kzak, lukasim, lvm-team, mbroz, oliver, prockai
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Description Christian Wilken 2009-02-07 00:05:37 UTC

Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install F11 (rawhide) x86_64

  
Actual results:
After first reboot hangs with "can't mount /dev/root" (not on the actual system now)


Expected results:
Boot to finalize(/customize) installation....

Additional info:
Quick resolution:
1. Select Fedora boot option in Grub
2. Press "e" (edit)
3. Select kernel line (line no 2) and press "e" (edit)
4. Replace "root=UUID=Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" with "root=/dev/vg_<hostname_as_set_earlier_in_install>/lv_root" (i.e. root=/dev/vg_localhost/lv_root)
5. Press "b" for boot... ;)
6. After installation has finished edit /boot/grub/grub.conf replacing the same line as above...

Comment 1 Andrew Hecox 2009-02-09 02:33:32 UTC

I'm seeing this as well, with some differences: 

 - no LVM
 - arch == i586

The same solution works. Changing component to e2fsprogs, although I'm not sure if that's really at fault. I can re-append the UUID line and retry booting if it helps. I did *not*, unfortunately, confirm the original UUID line was correct before cutting it.

Comment 2 Andrew Hecox 2009-02-09 02:34:54 UTC

also, as a quick note: the root file system is ext4, and dumpe2fs <dev> | grep UUID returns a seemingly valid result.

Comment 3 Eric Sandeen 2009-02-09 02:58:59 UTC

Quoting bug 484508 comment #2 :

> mount by UUID not working in the alpha is a known problem in nash in the alpha.
> Please update to mkinitrd-6.0.76, and regenerate your initrd:
> mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
> Then this problem should go away.

Please reopen if this is not so.

Thanks,
-Eric

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 480667 ***