mkbootdisk: Cannot find root partition in /etc/fstab.

[Charles Curley]

When I run mkbootdisk on a system installed from a live CD, I get:

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[root at taltos bare.metal]# mkbootdisk --iso --device ../bootdisk.$(uname -r).iso $(uname -r)
Cannot find root partition in /etc/fstab.
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When I run the same on a system installed from Anaconda, I do not get
this. Possibly the difference is in how the root partition is
identified in /etc/fstab, on the same hardware:

live CD:
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[root at taltos bare.metal]# cat /etc/fstab 
LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
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Anaconda:
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/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
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This difference also causes problems for bare metal recovery. I would
prefer the Anaconda non-label version.


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