Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 212126
Booting with root=/dev/dm-X fails
Last modified: 2008-08-02 19:40:36 EDT
Hi, As you know I've been investigating boot problems with lvm / dmraid. In order to make things easier for you I'm now filling each problem I've noticed seperately instead of tagging them as comments onto other bug reports (sorry about that I really should know better). For people who have /dev/dm-x as root in their fstab grubby will put root=/dev/dm-x as kernel argument in /etc/grub.conf, leading to a non booting system as the /dev dir on the ramdisk doesn't have any /dev/dm-X devices (only /dev/mapper/XXX) I'm thinking about writing a patch for this which calls nashDmGetDevName() in the mkrootdev function when root is /dev/dm-x, the problem is that we first have to create a devno for this, I think this is best done by getting the major from /proc/devices (code already in dm.c) and using N in /dev/dm-N as the minor. Will you take such a patch?
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bug was created, it appears to have been reported against rawhide during the development of a Fedora release that is no longer maintained. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained.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 believe that this bug is still present in the current mkinitrd / nash, Peter?
This bug has been in NEEDINFO for more than 30 days since feedback was first requested. As a result we are closing it. If you can reproduce this bug in the future against a maintained Fedora version please feel free to reopen it against that version. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp