Description of problem: Since kernel 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 every kernel upgrade leads to a kernel panic with the following message: " uncompressing linux...OK, booting the kernel Red Hat nash version 4.2.15 starting EXT3-fs: unrecognized mount option "auto" or missing value mount: error 22 mounting ext3 ERROR opening /dev/console!!!!2 error dup2' ing fd of 0 to 0 error dup2' ing fd of 0 to 1 error dup2' ing fd of 0 to 2 switchroot: mount failed: 22 kernel panic - not syncing: attempted to kill init! " Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 and all FC4 version above How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Kernel uppdate with yumex 2.reboot 3. Actual results: Kernel panic Expected results: Boot on kernel Additional info: I am also evaluating new FC5 on another partition on the same PC: 1) I installed FC5 on an ext3 / partition. I experimented the same problem when upgrading the kernel to version 2.6.16-1.2080_FC5. The error message was: " EXT3-fs: unrecognized mount option "auto" or missing value mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3: Invalid argument " 2) I tried also with a new initrd including ext3 module (mkinitrd --with=ext3) but it leads to the same kernel panic 3) Finally I reformat / partition as ext2 and reinstalled FC5. After that, kernel upgrade to 2.6.16-1.2080_FC5 was OK
The problem comes from my fstab in which I had the following line for /: LABEL=/ / ext3 rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async,acl 1 1 I replace that line by: LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 Then every new kernel update was OK What I don't know is why all was OK before 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 with the same fstab