Thursday, March 5, 2009

Boot failure

After the lastest kernel update on fedora, my box refused to boot since it was unable to mount the root filesystem. The old kernel still booted fine. My first thought was an issue with the initrd, so I first rebuild it to see if that resolved it. No change.
Therefor it was time to take a closer look.. after unpacking the initrd, I noticed the mkrootdev line was different.. and that's when I recalled that I had updated my /etc/fstab root entry and had added 'relatime' to the mount flags.
Apparently mkrootdev was failing on that flag. I'd figure it would be a simple thing to fix, so I checked out the repository and noticed it was fixed in version 6.0.76-1 (fedora 10 uses 6.0.71):



commit e993db4b1790d0328fcd76c0fd88ca2a82a931d5
Author: Jayson King
Date: Wed Feb 4 21:11:54 2009 +0100

Make nash mount support relatime (#296361)

Make nash mount support relatime (#296361).

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