From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0EEB13864A for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:03:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 02FC9E064A; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:02:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from email.aon.at (smtpout02.highway.telekom.at [195.3.96.113]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5D5BE0618 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:02:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 7978 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2013 10:02:52 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.0 (2007-05-01) on WARSBL607.highway.telekom.at X-Spam-Level: Received: from 91-114-222-85.adsl.highway.telekom.at (HELO [10.0.0.1]) ([91.114.222.85]) (envelope-sender ) by smarthub83.res.a1.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 24 Jan 2013 10:02:51 -0000 Message-ID: <510106CB.8090500@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:02:51 +0100 From: Michael Haubenwallner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0.11) Gecko/20130109 Thunderbird/10.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] news item for udev 197-r3 upgrade (yes, I know, it's late) References: <50FFE241.6030107@gentoo.org> <51002BFF.3070402@desaster-games.com> In-Reply-To: <51002BFF.3070402@desaster-games.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: cd890f9c-a56f-4fad-bcb4-4c8e59ab8702 X-Archives-Hash: f76d95595f06156934b3db44e2280ee4 On 01/23/13 19:29, Felix Kuperjans wrote: > Samuli Suominen wrote: >> please review this news item, seems we need one after all > > /dev/root is no longer available in this udev version, so people who put > this in their /etc/fstab might end up with an unbootable system. > > I suggest including in the news item, that /dev/root must be replaced > with the actual root device or LABEL=..., UUID=... and the like in > /etc/fstab. I've recently upgraded some server from kernel-2.6.28 to kernel-3.5.7 and encountered that the root-device was renamed from /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 to /dev/sda1 due to some kernel driver change (took me a while to find out). I'm not using genkernel or any initramfs, nor do I have separate /usr. The only way I've found to keep the system bootable with both kernels (for the upgrade process until the new kernel config was good enough) was to replace /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 by /dev/root in /etc/fstab. How would this be done when there is no /dev/root any more? So yes, please include the /dev/root drop (at least) in the news item. /haubi/