[ Cc'ing linux-ext4 again ] On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 at 05:44, Matt Parnell wrote: > > Did you try booting with init=/bin/bash, i.e. bypassing all initscripts? > > Also, try booting w/o an initrd image if you can, thus bypassing all the > > early boot magic. > > Not exactly, but I had it drop out to perform an fsck, and the mtab > indicated it was mounted according to my options, but this was when > the disk was mounted read only from grub. Also, I don't use an > initrd...so that's not it either. Yeah, mtab is no good when your rootfs is readonly. What did /proc/mounts say? C. > > Shot in the dark: if it worked with 2.6.39 but not with 3.x and the > > initscript have not changed, maybe some initscript went mad when it > > could not parse the new kernel version number? > > > > Christian. > > It's not that either... Arch has been using 3.0+ as it's default for a > few weeks now, so they would've updated their scripts for that. > Furthermore, I tried using OpenRC (the gentoo init system) and got the > same results. > -- BOFH excuse #359: YOU HAVE AN I/O ERROR -> Incompetent Operator error -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html