On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 05:57, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > To be clear: specifying "rootflags=data=writeback" causes the kernel > > panic. > > it's also the wrong thing to do: the initrd mounts your root filesystem, > not the kernel. So the mount flag need to be set within the initrd, and > afaik, mkinitrd just uses /etc/fstab to copy the flags AT CREATION TIME > of the initrd..... That fixed it. The steps to enable ext3's writeback mode are: 1. add "data=writeback" to /'s flags in /etc/fstab; 2. mkinitrd; and 3. update grub.conf to point to the new initrd image. It's probably a bug that the flags have to match in fstab and its initrd copy, but I don't care because it works! Thanks, everyone (especially Arjan) for your help and patience. Tom -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
