[Cbe-oss-dev] Custom partition layout troubles with Kboot?

[Julio M. Merino Vidal]

On 12/12/2007, at 18:26, Edward Strong wrote:

> I know this question is probably beneath you guys but I've been  
> trying to
> figure this out for 2 days now and nobody else at the various  
> resources I
> looked at have a clue.
>
> I'm trying to set-up F8 on my PS3 using a custom partitioning  
> layout.  It
> currently looks something like this:
>
> ps3da1: ext3, 128MB, mount point=/boot
> ps3da2: swap, 512MB
> ps3da3: ext3, remaining space, mount point=/
>
> However it seems no matter what I try, I get a "mount: could not find
> filesystem at '/dev/root'" error at nash stage after kboot boots the
> kernel.
>
> I'm assuming that "LABEL=/" is the root filesystem alias passed on  
> from
> kboot to Fedora and is used in both yaboot.conf and fstab.  Upon  
> looking
> in these files (via a Gentoo rescue disc) I found that this alias  
> had been
> changed to "LABEL=/1".  I read elsewhere that this can be caused by  
> a bug
> in the manual partition layout tool and can be fixed by simply  
> removing
> the offending "1", however I still get the same error.
>

There is a bug in the nash shipped by Fedora 8, so you have to avoid  
using LABELs in your kboot.conf (or yaboot.conf) configuration file.   
Simply specifying the root device as /dev/ps3da3 should make it work.

For more details and a patch please see:

	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389331

Cheers,

-- 
Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmerino at ac.upc.edu>