From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263729AbTEYT6j (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2003 15:58:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263731AbTEYT6j (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2003 15:58:39 -0400 Received: from pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com ([12.47.58.20]:12846 "EHLO pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263729AbTEYT6i (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2003 15:58:38 -0400 Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 13:15:12 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Alistair J Strachan Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.69-mm9 Message-Id: <20030525131512.45ce0cc2.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <200305251619.40137.alistair@devzero.co.uk> References: <200305251619.40137.alistair@devzero.co.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0pre1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 May 2003 20:11:48.0415 (UTC) FILETIME=[DF3EECF0:01C322F9] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alistair J Strachan wrote: > > > These changes don't even get to login for me. I changed the mm9 command line > to include init=/bin/sh and got to a prompt. I was able to reproduce an > enormous number of oopses by issuing: > > mount -o remount,rw / > > I tried to log it with klogd pointed to a different partition (vfat) but the > problem segfaults klogd before it commits anything to disc. I'll probably try > to do it via serial console this evening if nobody else can reproduce this. It sounds like that would be a useful course of action. > Another oddity is that changing my / partition to ext2 in /etc/fstab and > booting normally (i.e., without init=) doesn't make any difference. If these > changes are ext3/jbd only, why is my ext3 volume mounted as ext2 still not > mounting rw? Changing fstab will not cause / to be mounted by ext2: the kernel makes the decision for /. You may be able to use "rootfstype=" (I don't think I've ever tried it). The proper way to convert to ext2 is: - boot with init=/bin/sh - /sbin/tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hda1 - /sbin/e2fsck -fy /dev/hda1 - reboot, edit /etc/fstab for the non-root filesystems.