On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 23:15 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote:
Georg Wittig wrote:
> kernel-2.6.23.1-21.fc7 doesn't boot when I use the mount option
> "relatime" for the root filesystem in /etc/fstab. It complains about
> an unknown mount option when trying to mount the root filesystem.
> Finally booting stops with kernel panic.
>
> kernel-2.6.23.1-10.fc7 works fine.
Does
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/296361 (nash mount should support
relatime) shed any light on the problem you're having? Particularly
this comment[1]:
Comment #4 From Stu Tomlinson on 2007-10-30 21:40 EST
This is not directly dependent on kernel version, but on the mount
options specified in /etc/fstab *at the time a kernel update is
installed*.
I now know that relatime is actually the default now, so anyone
encountering this can remove relatime from their /etc/fstab and
rebuild the initrd for their kernel to avoid this bug (I still
think the patch should be applied for safety), and still have /
mounted using relatime.
To rebuild your initrd you can run:
/sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --depmod --install 2.6.23.1-10
after removing the relatime flag from /etc/fstab. (This is
probably an overkill way of rebuilding the initrd, it may be
sufficient to run:
mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.1-10.fc7.img 2.6.23.1-10.fc7
but I know the 1st command is what kernel rpm installs use).
Make sure you specify the "-f" flag to mkinitrd if you don't delete the
old initrd image first.
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