[Cbe-oss-dev] Kernel Install warnings

Patrick Mansfield patmans at us.ibm.com
Sat Jan 12 05:16:45 EST 2008


On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:57:27PM +0100, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> On 11/01/2008, at 17:35, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 10:25:26PM +1100, Adam Clark wrote:
>>> This resolved it.
>>
>> Are you using mount by label in your /etc/fstab? I also thought the
>> workaround was to only modify yaboot.conf or boot with 
>> root=/dev/ps3whatever,
>> but maybe fstab also has to be modified (I'm pretty sure I modified both
>> on my system, it's not up right now).
>
> That does not solve it either.  The problem is in nash, which does not 

So you changed your fstab, and it still failed?

> recognize the ps3's hard disk name, and that happens even before the fstab 
> is read.  I don't know why, though, the original kernel can boot and a 
> modified one cannot.

Yes, but mkinitrd (at least for Fedora) parses /etc/fstab, that is how it
figures out the root fs information including the mount method.

-- Patrick Mansfield



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