Bug 193002

Summary:	2007.0 GUI installer uses labels in fstab but doesn't set them on disk
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jack <ostroffjh>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jack 2007-09-19 01:32:27 UTC

The 2007.0 GUI installer creates /etc/fstab with /dev/ROOT instead of /dev/hda1.  However, even if the partition is ext2 or ext3, it does not create the label, so the mount fails on the next reboot.  The handbook apparently uses /dev/ROOT in the example description of fstab, but it does say to replace with the correct partition reference.  The installer should either put the labels on the partition or not use labels in fstab.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use GUI installer
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Actual Results:  
failure on next boot with message about bad superblock - very confusing to newbies.  Even worse, at that point the root fs is mounted ro, so you have to remount rw or reboot back to CD to edit fstab.

Expected Results:  
Successful boot.

I'm not sure why this hasn't been reported already, unless either folks either know how to fix it or can't figure out (or don't care to) file the bug.

Comment 1 Jack 2007-09-19 01:36:05 UTC

Sorry - I inadvertently reposted instead of just reloading.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 192991 ***