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Re: Bug#806341: zipl-installer: Using standard device names can result in a non-bootable system



On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 06:14:59PM +0100, Viktor Mihajlovski wrote:
> Currently, the root= statement used by zipl will contain a standard device
> name like /dev/dasda1.
> This will only work reliable if only one disk device is used while booting.
> If more than one disk device is discovered the name of the device used by
> the root filesystem might change resulting in a not found root filesystem.
> I suggest to use the filesystem UUID of the root filesystem where possible,
> similar to what's used in /etc/fstab.

So this will actually work with the recent changes that stopped forcing
DASD naming onto users to set the device online. All disk devices listed
in /etc/sysconfig/hardware will now be enabled.

I have a small fear that people clone a lot on s390 and hence have
duplicate UUIDs, but certainly not post-install at this point.

I applied and pushed the patch. Thanks!

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

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