Bug 838342 - Adding live_ram to kernel params prevents mount of persistent home
Summary: Adding live_ram to kernel params prevents mount of persistent home
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: LiveCD
Version: 17
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matthias Clasen
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-07-08 14:42 UTC by livecdlife
Modified: 2013-08-01 04:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-08-01 04:10:03 UTC
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Description livecdlife 2012-07-08 14:42:31 UTC
Description of problem:
Adding "live_ram" makes impossible mounting of persistent home. Obviously, after the image is loaded to ram, the partition is "ejected" and is not visible for mounting home.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Livecd-tools 17.11

How reproducible:



Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create any standard livecd (Gnome or Kde) on vfat or ext4 partition of usb stick
2. When booting, press "Tab" and add "live_ram" to kernel parameters
  
Actual results:
If usb stick partition is vfat, everything boots, but the /home is not mounted to the persistent home.img file.
If usb stick partition is ext4, the boot process stop with some messages
udevd[330 <or 336 or 338>]: inotify_add_watch(6, /dev/sda1,10): failed: no such file or directory
dracut warning: unable to process the initqueue
dracut warning: /dev/disk/by-uuid/... does not exist


Expected results:
LiveOS/home.img from usb stick is mapped to /dev/loopN and the encryption partition is mounted through /dev/mapper/EncHome to /home


Additional info:
Tested on several usb sticks (usb 2.0, usb 3.0) and different configurations of .ks files (basic, gnome, kde, custom).

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