Yaboot not recognizing volume labels

[Dustin N. Jenkins]

Sorry, actually it does understand Volume labels as I was able to 
replace the:

root=/dev/hda4

in my 'old' image with:

append="root=LABEL=Root"

and it booted just fine still.

So what the heck changed in the kernel? I suspect there's a udev problem 
here somewhere since if I let BusyBox startup after waiting three 
minutes for the Root Filesystem of the newew 'Linux' image, the udevd 
command is started with udevd --daemon --resolve-names=never, which is 
odd considering that when my 'old' image is booted up, it's started with 
udevd --daemon.

Still something very wrong here. Thanks for any assistance.

Regards,
Dustin


On 29/01/10 09:16 AM, Dustin N. Jenkins wrote:
> I'm running an unstable 5.0.3 on a 15" PowerBook G4 on a custom 
> 2.6.32.3 kernel. I have a single partition that is a reiserfs file 
> system.
>
> When I tried to upgrade to a 2.6.32.4 kernel (or higher as the current 
> stable kernel is 2.6.32.7), I got the "Waiting for root file 
> system..." hang. Debian has some documentation about it:
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#boot-hangs 
>
>
> I tried the suggestion of labeling the file system to 'Root', but it 
> still hangs. I thought maybe the initramfs image wasn't being setup 
> properly, so I modified the /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf file 
> and set this:
>
> ROOT=LABEL=/Root
>
> and rebuilt my initrd.img:
> mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32.7 2.6.32.7
>
> The resulting image was 22MB, and the system still hangs. If I try to 
> configure my /etc/yaboot.conf to look for the root at LABEL=/Root, it 
> becomes unreadable when selected at the Yaboot selection screen. I 
> have also tried to set the root to /dev/sda4 instead of /dev/hda4 as 
> per the suggestion in the Debian documentation above, but it still hangs.
>
> Here is my current yaboot.conf (The 'old' image boots fine):
>
> boot=/dev/hda2
> device=/pci at f4000000/ata-6 at d/disk at 0:
> partition=4
> timeout=100
> install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
> magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
> enablecdboot
> macosx=/dev/hda3
>
> image=/boot/vmlinux
> label=Linux
> read-only
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> append="root=LABEL=/Root"
>
> image=/boot/vmlinux.old
> label=old
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda4
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img.old
>
> Any help would be appreciated!
> Thanks,
> Dustin
>
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