On 13 Jun 2007, at 20:53, Tom Sightler wrote:
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 15:11 -0400, Kendrick Hernandez wrote:
On our RHEL4 tester we put in the symlink manually, but also had to
modify grub.conf so that "root=" parameter on the kernel line
pointed to
the root device instead of "LABEL=/"; otherwise the symlink was
removed
and /dev/root recreated after reboot. I've tried this also on the
RHEL5
box, to no avail, unfortunately.
Sure enough, I finally found a RHEL4 system which used "LABEL=/" in
grub.conf and it does indeed have the restrictive /dev/root device
node
rather than the symbolic link to the actual device. It just so
happens
that practically all of our RHEL4 systems have either LVM paths or
physical partitions on the root= line.
Ahhh... LABEL=/ is default RHEL behaviour I believe... (at least my
kickstart looks vanilla and I don't see us changing it anywhere) you
must have foreseen this problem in advance and pre-prepared your
systems by using LVM or direct device paths ;o)
Not that the problem bothers me on the systems I have installed - we
don't use Amanda *and* we don't backup /dev anyway... I guess the fix
for the OP is to change grub to point to a physical device, the
downside being you are affected by changes in device ordering.
--
Sam
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