Bug#366853: udev: vol_id returns incorrect information for my root device

2006-05-13 Thread Bob McGowan
The system I'm using is a Dell server, originally purchased with Red Hat Linux 7.1 (may have been 7.0, I don't recall for sure) installed at the factory. I did not presume that they would have loaded any Windows software on a new system with new disks purchased this way. Is there a way to

Bug#366853: udev: vol_id returns incorrect information for my root device

2006-05-11 Thread Bob McGowan
Package: udev Version: 0.091-2 Severity: normal Subject: udev: vol_id returns incorrect information for my boot device Package: udev Version: 0.091-2 Severity: normal I've been trying to get the 'root=LABEL=label_name' functionality to work for my system, since it's SCSI based and the presence

Bug#366853: udev: vol_id returns incorrect information for my root device

2006-05-11 Thread Kay Sievers
I've found that the problem appears to be related to vol_id failing to find proper information for my root device, /dev/sda1. I've run the commands 'e2label', '/lib/udev/vol_id', 'mount' and 'fdisk' with the following results: Never use any of the all broken mkfs* tools without writing zeros

Bug#366853: udev: vol_id returns incorrect information for my root device

2006-05-11 Thread Bob McGowan
Wonderful ;( There's nothing in any of the installation documentation that I can remember that warns me about any of this. I suppose this could be considered a documentation bug? As mentioned in my response to Kay Sievers, so far as I know this system had never had any other operating

Bug#366853: udev: vol_id returns incorrect information for my root device

2006-05-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 12, Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's nothing in any of the installation documentation that I can remember that warns me about any of this. I suppose this could be considered a documentation bug? I agree with Kay that this should be considered a bug in the program used to

Bug#366853: udev: vol_id returns incorrect information for my root device

2006-05-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 12, md wrote: I suggest you discuss this with the e2fsprogs maintainer, Theodore Ts'o [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Or even better ask about this on debian-boot, it could be argued that it's up to whatever d-i uses to partition the disk to deal with it. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: