From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021020 Description of problem: mkinitrd parses /etc/raidtab to determine whether it need to include RAID support. The current version only works, however, if there is a tab before the "raid-level" keyword. If there are only four spaces, for example, mkinitrd will not include RAID support. This can easily lead to an unbootable system -- particularly because Red Hat 7.3 was more forgiving in this regard. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Red Hat Linux 8.0 onto a RAID-1 root partition. 2. Modify /etc/raidtab, replacing tabs with spaces. 3. Run mkinitrd (or upgrade kernel RPMS). The system will not be able to boot with the new initrd image. Actual Results: RAID support not included in resulting initrd image. Expected Results: mkinitrd should have detected that root partition was on a RAID-1 device and included support. Additional info: Putting this as high severity, since it can lead to unbootable systems (probably also because it took me about 8 hours to figure out what was going on).
fixed in 3.4.30 -- not going to errata this unless there are more reports.
Just reporting that I just hit this buglet. I see this could trip up people, but i don't really mind if an errata is done or not.
It just hit me too, if you're still counting reports.