No way to boot on 2.6.23.12-52.fc7

[Dr P Dupre]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Tim wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 01:16 +0000, Dr P Dupre wrote:
>> I do not know if you are right but, how do you explain that I can boot
>> fine with an older kernel ?
>
> Perhaps one kernel has less of a problem with dealing with a duplicate
> partition label?  I don't think we have enough information from you to
> really diagnose the issue.
>
> Looking at your supplied grub.conf file, your older kernel boots using
> "root=/dev/sda8" to say where "/" is, that's absolute and unequivical.
> I'd expect that the newer kernel should boot the same, given the same
> information.  I'd expect both of them to have booting problems if you
> had "root=LABEL=/" and two "/" *labelled* partitions (whether you might
> it read-only or read/write is irrelevent).
>
> You really need to remove that problem before worrying about anything
> else.  I haven't seen you say whether you have.  But relabel one of the
> partitions.
>
So, with the new kernel, the behavior is different. It looks like that
it does not like at all that 2 partitions have the same label even if
they are used with an absolute addressing (like root=/dev/sdax) in the
fstab.

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