Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 376281
F8 installation failure
Last modified: 2008-10-22 17:34:14 EDT
Description of problem: I installed F8 on my PS3. Once all packages were installed I was asked to reboot the system, which I did. Upon reboot, I got this: Red Hat nash version 6.0.19 starting Unable to access fesume device (LABEL=SWAP-ps3da2) mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root' setuproot: moving /dev/ failed: No such file or directory ... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install F8, using a custom partition layout, on PS3 2. 3. Actual results: The final installation steps (configuration) fail, as the system doesn't reboot. Expected results: Additional info: (I read somewhere that with F8 partitions are required to be labeled. I can't remember having explicitely specified labels when creating my partitions. FWIW.)
How did you partition the system?
/sbin/blkid confirms that I have three partitions (ps3da[1,2,3]), with labels "/", "swap", and "/home". I partitioned the disk during installation. I'm not sure why the boot process is looking for a "SWAP-ps3da2" label, and what the failure to "find filesystem /dev/root" means. (/dev/root exists on the "/" partition, and is a regular block-device read/writable by root. Thanks,
Sorry, I spoke to quickly. My swap partition does in fact have a "SWAP-ps3da2" label. (I misinterpreted the "TYPE" field in my previous post.)
That looks like everything is right. Do you see the ps3 disk module getting loaded prior to that?
I'm not sure. However, if, at the kboot prompt I type "linux root=/dev/ps3da1" everything works fine. This makes it sound as if the problem is related to the way the partitions are by default addressed in the boot loader. (By the way, I was looking for the kboot.conf file in /etc/, but couldn't find it.)
Ping ? (Someone on irc://irc.oftc.net/cell just suggested the fact that I don't have a /etc/kboot.config and the boot problems might be related. Apparently, a 'builtin' kboot.conf file gets used of no /etc/kboot.conf file was found. And indeed, "cat //etc/kboot.conf" on the kboot prompt does print some content...) So, may be the bug is that my F8 installation didn't create /etc/kboot.conf ?
Can you try installing F9 to see if you run into the same problem?
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