From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11 Description of problem: When I use an fstab that mounts root with a label=root in the first field, and root is on a logical volume which is, in turn, on a raid volume, mkinitrd creates an initrd that doesn't seem to include raid or lvm, either as modules or in the nash script to active raid and the volume groups. An equivalent fstab that references devices produces a valid initrd. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mkinitrd-6.0.19-4.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Build an fstab with label=volumelabel 2.mkinitrd 3.boot Actual Results: System doesn't boot Expected Results: System should have booted Additional info: This may be related, or the same bug as: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=241949 This problem, or one quite like it, occurred in Fedora Core 7, and the patch in bug 241949 made mkinitrd work for me. mkinitrd has changed sufficiently since FC7 that reapplying the patch is not straighforward.
Created attachment 290334 [details] fstab with device names
Created attachment 290335 [details] sh -x output of mkinitrd run using fstab with device names
Created attachment 290336 [details] fstab using volume labels
Created attachment 290337 [details] sh -x output of mkinitrd run using fstab using labels
I can confirm this bug still exists in RHEL 4 ES U5. I ran into it last week; specify root as "LABEL=/" in /etc/fstab; watch mkinitrd skip lvm-specific steps like copying {lvm.static, lvm.conf} and including more than only the dm-mod module. It seems to me that bugs #209473, #212124, #214184, #246626, #294051 and #327181 are related to this (not sure if they're strictly dupes).
Are you still encountering this in F9?
(In reply to comment #6) > Are you still encountering this in F9? I haven't been able to do a full test (a reboot), but a quick look at a newly generated initrd makes me hopeful that this has been fixed. I'll be able to confirm that in the next day or two. Thanks for checking in.
I've done a test reboot and this seems to be working fine now, on Fedora 9, using mkinitrd-6.0.52-2.fc9. Thanks for following up.