F19 not able to boot by UUID

Greg Woods woods at ucar.edu
Thu Aug 29 14:26:43 UTC 2013


On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 08:55 -0500, g wrote:
> 
> On 08/29/2013 06:46 AM, Mark Haney wrote:
> <<>>
> >
> >> My first guess would be to check that you're using the exact same UUID in
> >> the boot parameter as on the drive partition.  Check the partition UUID is
> >> what you thought it is.  Check for typos in the boot configuration.
> >
> >
> > So how exactly would I be able to do that from dracut?

If the file system is ext2, ext3, or ext4, then the UUID for a file
system on a physical or LVM device can be printed with UUID:

# tune2fs -l /dev/sda1

or

# tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/ROOT-ROOT

(change device names as appropriate for your system)

--Greg




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