The mkinitrd binary shipped with RHEL4 fails to copy over lvm related files to initrd, if LABEL directive is used in fstab to identify lvm volume.
Issue
- The mkinitrd binary shipped with RHEL4 fails to copy over lvm related files to initrd, if LABEL directive is used in fstab to identify the lvm volume.
- If root filesystem is residing on logical volume, this will result in kernel panic with
mkrootdev: label / not found
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- mkinitrd-4.2.1.13-4.el4_8.1
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