Bug 307704

Summary: Can't boot from root fs when using labels
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3 Reporter: Stephan Rickauer <sles>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Hannes Reinecke <hare>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Beta 2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i386   
OS: openSUSE 10.3   
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Description Stephan Rickauer 2007-09-05 10:33:57 UTC
# grep ROOT /etc/fstab
LABEL=ROOT on / type xfs (rw)

# grep ROOT /boot/grub/menu.lst
    kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=LABEL=ROOT splash=silent showopts


When booting, the system bails out with:

"Waiting for device /dev/root to appear: .... Could not find /dev/root. Want me to fall back to /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:10:0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part1? (Y/n)"

When saying 'Y' the sytem will continue to boot.


Chaning from label to device based mounting (/dev/sda1 in my case) fixes the issue.
Comment 1 Hannes Reinecke 2007-09-07 10:53:34 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 300550 ***