[ale] Unable to mount disks with UUID

[Jim Kinney]

Sounds like a bad kernel or initrd has no UUID capability.

Does another kernel boot it?

On December 15, 2015 9:57:21 PM EST, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
>Yes, it was autogenerated during various kernel installs.  I have not
>edited fstab to add UUID on either system that had an issue.
>
>On 2015-12-15 18:56, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>> Do you have the syntax sorted? the rightmost column is supposed to
>look
>> like
>> 
>> UUID=d88c0ab0-320c-4093-8316-e6dde520e2c1
>> 
>> No quotes.
>> 
>> On 12/15/15 9:48 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
>>> Ok, I just had a machine crash and need a reboot.  When it came up
>it
>>> was waiting for a password (so it sat all day waiting for me to get
>back
>>> to find that) and then it proceeded to fail to mount any of the
>other
>>> disks in the system because the UUIDs wouldn't work.  Running blkid
>on
>>> the partitions shows the right UUID which matches what is in fstab
>but
>>> didn't work.  Using the /dev/sdxy references worked fine so I
>switched
>>> the fstab to use those but fstab will likely get rewritten by
>another
>>> kernel update (like it did already) so I need to figure out why UUID
>>> mounting is failing.
>>>
>>> Anyone seen this before?  It also happened on another machine that I
>>> refreshed recently.  It couldn't boot its own root partition and I
>had
>>> to go in and fix the fstab to point to /dev/sdxy.
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