Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 331591
USB disk boot with swap on normal HDD fails
Last modified: 2009-02-17 15:01:27 EST
Description of problem: I'm testing FC8 (rawhide) on external USB disk. After installing from the Live CD I had to --preload=ehci-hcd --preload=usb-storage --preload=scsi_mod --preload=sd_mod and it worked. The space however ran out and I removed the swap from the USB disk and reused my existing one on the real system (edited /etc/fstab....). After the first kernel update however, the system did not boot because the initrd was activating only the VG that had the swap on it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mkinitrd-6.0.19-1.fc8 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install rawhide on USB disk 2. 'rescue' the system and preload the usb storage. 3. make the system use a swap partition on normal HDD 4. update the kernel Actual results: init in the new initrd image contains lvm vgchange -ay --ignorelockingfailure YOUR_SWAP_VG Expected results: lvm vgchange -ay --ignorelockingfailure YOUR_SWAP_VG lvm vgchange -ay --ignorelockingfailure YOUR_ROOT_VG or simply lvm vgchange -ay --ignorelockingfailure Additional info: In this configuration (root on VG on USB HDD and swap on another VG on normal HDD) mkinitrd fails to add all needed modules and activate all VGs. This bug can be related to bug # 238528 and bug # 203244.
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
Can you test this with F9 to see if the problem still occurs?