On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:37:24PM -0400, Andy Baumhauer wrote:
> Thanks Dave,
>
> It turns out to be a mkinitrd bug.
>
> After analyzing the two nash init scripts in the initrd files attached, I
> noticed that the working one had lvm commands, and the other did not (as I
> suspected). After studying and debugging the mkinitrd script, I isolated the
> problem to the following function call:
>
> lvshow() {
> lvm.static lvs --ignorelockingfailure --noheadings -o vg_name \
> $1 2>/dev/null | egrep -v '^ *(WARNING:|Volume Groups with)'
> }
>
> The problem stems from my /etc/fstab having all of the LVM partitions called
> with LABEL=/, LABEL=/var, and LABEL=/home. The lvshow function
> (lvm.static lvs)
> does not support LABEL=/ to locate a volume group.
>
> The work-around was to change LABEL=/ to /dev/mapper/VolumeGroup00-root
> and this
> was enough to output the correct nash script to start LVM at boot.
>
> The permanent fix is to determine if Fedora is going to use LABEL=/ in fstab
> (and use it in /etc/crypttab), and if so, fix the mkinitrd function to
> locate
> LVM volume groups by label.
Nnngghh.. The fragility of this stuff never ceases to amaze me.
Can you file a bug on this please?
Dave
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