Boot hangs waiting for local filesystems if / isn't in fstab and / is only mounted ro
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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mountall (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: mountall
Hi
If you boot a lucid kernel with no fstab (or specifically without "/" in fstab), with no initrd, and without "rw" on the kernel cmdline, the boot hangs waiting for local filesystems.
If however one passes "rw" on the kernel cmdline, the boot proceeds; it also works if one has / in fstab.
I'm not sure what actually blocks mountall from remounting / rw when it's not listed in fstab; perhaps /dev/root is mising?
This is a low priority use case though; people should have / in their fstab.
Bye,
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Feb 24 18:23:29 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: mountall 2.5
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: mountall
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic x86_64
Changed in mountall (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in mountall (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
NB: I tried with the linux armel/versatile kernel and qemu with a lucid rootfs; I actually had a fstab myself, but a lot of people using rootstock do not in fact have / in their fstab; I've mentioned this issue to Oliver for fixing in rootstock/ documentation.