From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: I'm in the process of building and testing 2.5.x kernels. as well as the latest 2.4.x kernels. It seems that RH 8.0's /etc/fstab isn't what the latest kernels are looking for... LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 2 doesn't work /dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults 1 2 boots.. I'm not sure if RH should change, or there's something in the kernel that should be modified. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Build latest 2.4.x or 2.5.x kernel 2. Boot kernel and notice results 3. Actual Results: The system won't mount the filesystems as stated in the /etc/fstab file. Expected Results: The systems should boot. Additional info:
Your initrd is probably not correct. mkinitrd doesn't really support 2.5 kernels yet, as I recall.
That might be true for 2.5.x (I will double check without booting 2.5.59 with initrd), but it doesn't explain 2.4.21-pre4-ac2, since its the latest 2.4.x kernel that should work well with mkinitrd. As I said, I will go back and test both kernels without initrd.
I tried my 2.5.59 kernel on a RH 7.3 system that has no labels on its partitions. It worked. I have the latest RH 8.0 mkinitrd supplied with the system (and labled partitions), and as reported, the same 2.5.59 will not work. I noticed another bugzilla report for RH 7.3 that mentioned that a labeled root partition works in RH 8.0 . I would differ with that statement. Please advise further.
Labels definitely work in Red Hat Linux 8 -- we use them by default in our install. It very likely doesn't work with 2.5 however, and that probably won't be addressed until 2.6 is available.