The following has be reported by IBM LTC: mkinitrd build bad ramdisk if fstab has acl set Hardware Environment:z/900 Software Environment:RHEL-3 RC1 Steps to Reproduce: 1.add acl to fstab for root filesystem. cat /etc/fstab LABEL=/ / ext3 acl,rw 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/dasdc1 swap swap defaults 0 0 2. Reboot system 3. run mkinitrd - update zipl.conf to point to new ramdisk. run zipl. 4. IPL System - get error mount the filesystem with the acl (see actual results) 5. update zipl.conf and point to the original ramdisk. run zipl. IPL System - everything is fine. 6. remove acl,rw from fstab and rerun mkinitrd, update zipl.conf to point to the new ramdisk, run zipl. IPL system, everything is fine. (proof it is the acl in fstab) Actual Results:System unable to mount the filesystem that had acl set on. Checking root filesystem /dev/dasdb1 is mounted. e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting. [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /] fsck.ext3 -a /dev/dasdb1 [FAILED] Expected Results: The system IPL's without errors and changes are picked up. Additional Information:
The options field for the root fs should be defaults,acl not acl,rw -- does that work better?
yes, much better. Please close as user error.