Bug 56922 – mkbotdisk doesn't find root partition

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Bug 56922 - mkbotdisk doesn't find root partition

Summary:	mkbotdisk doesn't find root partition

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	mkbootdisk (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Matt Wilson
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Reported:	2001-11-30 08:59 EST by Marian-Nicolae ION
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-12-14 19:35:55 EST
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Description Marian-Nicolae ION 2001-11-30 08:59:30 EST

Trying to create a bootdisk displayed the following message:

Cannot find root partition in /etc/fstab

I think the problem comes from the fact that at the line 119 in the
/sbin/mkbootdisk script the previously found value for rootdev is
changed to the empty string.

Simply moving the lines 132-135 *before* line 110 has solved the
problem.

Comment 1 sean 2002-02-20 09:35:02 EST

I have not looked at the mkbootdisk code, but changing my /etc/fstab from using
LABEL to the actual device name seems to have made mkbootdisk happy.  I presume
not supporting LABEL is a bug.

Comment 2 Matt Wilson 2002-12-14 19:35:55 EST

It works with LABEL= here.

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