My fstab has #LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 #LABEL=/export /export ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sdc1 /export ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda6 /export/redhat ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sdb1 /export/redhat/mirror ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 #LABEL=/usr /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda2 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 #LABEL=/var /var ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda5 /var ext3 defaults 1 2 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 Upgrade to 7.3 made my machine panic during boot.
Created attachment 58045 [details] A patch to support comments in /etc/fstab
Yikes! Hard to believe this has been in there so long. Almost the same fix applied: rootdev=$(awk '/^[ \t]*[^#]/ { if ($2 == "/") { print $1; }}' $fstab) Let me (ewt -- mail me directly) know if you see any problems with this alternate fix.
*** Bug 66895 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I got so excited with this bugly I fixed it before checking bugzilla. Zoinks. Follows is alternate patch with less cruft.
Created attachment 61987 [details] fix for comment intolerance: also kill two vars with one awk
mkinitrd-3.4.20-1 seems to work fine, installs on 7.3 fine (I did rpm -U).
*** Bug 97084 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***