Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 108715
After upgrade to 2.4.20-20.9 I can no longer mount ext3 root
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:03:40 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701 Description of problem: Did an rpm -F * in pub/os/linux/redhat/updates/9/en/os/i386/. This deinstalled the 2.4.20-20.8 ump and smp kernels installed in a new RH9 installation and put only a ump 2.4.20-20.9 kernel in its place. Unfortunately I now can't boot. I am using ext3 and grub. Just trying to boot results in the root fs not being found. The kernel command line looks for it by label, so I edited the command line to find it by partition name /dev/hda3. Now I still can't boot, because I am using ext3 and the ext2 support in the new kernel refuses to mount it, saying that I am using an unsupported ext2 option (4). This option means that the ext3 fs is unchecked. I can't remember whether I did an unclean shutdown, but I may have done. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.20-20.9 How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info:
the ext3 partition should be getting mounted as ext3 if it can load the ext3 module from the initrd. The fact that it can't suggests either the initrd didn't get installed, or the bootloader config got screwed up.
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