From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1 Description of problem: When booting from USB devices (I have tested with USB flash disks), the boot fails when mounting the root filesystem because the partition table of the device is stale. As described in http://fungliding.blogspot.com/2005_04_01_fungliding_archive.html, rereading the partition table using sfdisk -R before mounting the root device fixes the problem. This works on all the USB devices I have tested. It would be very helpful if the initrd could reread the partition table on /dev/sd* before trying to mount the root device. However, including statically linked sfdisk seems a bit expensive. Instead, this functionality could probably be included into nash. Maybe the kernel should be fixed instead? Which method would be preferred? If this is something you want to add to nash, I could attempt a patch. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Boot from USB device. Actual Results: Kernel panic because root filesystem is not found Expected Results: System should boot Additional info:
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