From: Christian Kujau Subject: Re: Bug In ext4 in kernels > 2.6.39 - Not mounting with arguments/options I specify in fstab on root remount Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:25:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <4E6F1B49.3010803@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Matt Parnell Return-path: Received: from trent.utfs.org ([194.246.123.103]:59331 "EHLO trent.utfs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750803Ab1IMKZw (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:25:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 at 04:01, Matt Parnell wrote: > I know this isn't my initscripts, as I've also tried this using > openrc, aside from the default arch init system, and because upon > downgrading to 2.6.39 everything is working normally again, I know it Did you try booting with init=/bin/bash, i.e. bypassing all initscripts? Also, try booting w/o an initrd image if you can, thus bypassing all the early boot magic. Shot in the dark: if it worked with 2.6.39 but not with 3.x and the initscript have not changed, maybe some initscript went mad when it could not parse the new kernel version number? Christian. -- BOFH excuse #141: disks spinning backwards - toggle the hemisphere jumper.