[Cbe-oss-dev] Newbie: which kboot?

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Sat Dec 22 23:40:38 EST 2007


On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:37:11 +0000
David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 06:31 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > There was another bug that caused the initrd to not find the root
> > device because of labels.  So you might have to pass root=/dev/ps3da3
> > (or whatever your partition is) as well.
> 
> Er, was there? There was an LVM bug, where it didn't bother looking
> on /dev/ps3da for volume groups -- but that got fixed before we released
> F8 (and F7 still shows the internal disk as /dev/sda iirc). I'm not
> aware of anything else.

There was.  I hit it when I installed last weekend.  I had to add
root=/dev/ps3da3.  After a yum update to a newer kernel, I didn't have
to do that any longer.

josh



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