[Spacewalk-list] Strange mounting problems while kickstarting

[Justin Sherrill]

  On 9/24/10 12:43 PM, Sascha Bendix wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After spending another day of debugging I think I found the problem.
>
> There seems to be a bug in the kernel (2.6.18-194.el5) which was provided for pxe install on the CentOS 5.5 iso images. I could trigger it rproducilble via the following steps:
>
>    * boot it via pxe in rescue mode
>    * ensure you have a swap and a date (probably ext3) partition
>    * try to mount the swap partition ->  this fails
>    * try to mount the normal partition ->  system hangs ->  kernel panic
>
> Can anybody confirm/disprove this?
>
> @developers: Is there a way to change the kickstart pre script which tries to not mount a swap partition?
>
> Regards,
>
> Sascha Bendix
>
Oh wow, nice find!   I think i know of a solution to this.  Let me give 
it a try to see if it works and get back to you.

-Justin Sherrill