Description of problem: Looks like opening such bug reports gets tradition :( Peter, some of your changes broke the cciss support in the initrd. Switchroot fails for my cciss device by one of your more or less recent changes in mkinitrd, likely nash. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mkinitrd-6.0.14-1 How reproducible: Everytime, just install a kernel package when you've got a cciss/HP Smart Array system and try to boot it. Actual results: Non-booting system because of failed switchroot on cciss caused by some change in mkinitrd and/or nash :-( Expected results: Would be very nice, if you could fix the broken code very soon ;-) Additional info: I'm able to provide any filesystem & path information and system outputs - as long as I don't have to reboot the machine for, sorry. I'm also going to attach a screenshot, but likely this won't help you much.
Created attachment 184701 [details] Screenshot via remote management chip
mkinitrd-6.0.9-5 is working for me, latest in Rawhide (6.0.14-1) isn't. After diffing the the two created initrds, the main difference IMHO is: --- init.6.0.9-5 2007-09-01 16:22:15.000000000 +0200 +++ init.6.0.14-1 2007-09-01 16:21:49.000000000 +0200 @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ mkblkdevs resume /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 echo Creating root device. -mkrootdev -t ext3 -o defaults,ro cciss!c0d0p2 +mkrootdev -t ext3 -o defaults,ro LABEL=/ echo Mounting root filesystem. mount /sysroot echo Setting up other filesystems. IMHO it looks like the resolving from LABEL=/ to cciss!c0d0p2 is broken once more. It also could be another problem with having the exclamation mark within the device name. Figguring out and solving until Fedora 8 is up to you ;-)
You don't happen to have a cciss box running something recent that I could ssh into and test with, do you? Reboots shouldn't be necessary, but I will need root access.
Should work in 6.0.16-1 .