Bug 56922 - mkbotdisk doesn't find root partition
Summary: mkbotdisk doesn't find root partition
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: mkbootdisk
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matt Wilson
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-11-30 13:59 UTC by Marian-Nicolae ION
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-12-15 00:35:55 UTC
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Description Marian-Nicolae ION 2001-11-30 13:59:30 UTC 
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 14:35:02 UTC 
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 2002-12-15 00:35:55 UTC 
It works with LABEL= here.
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