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Rulatir

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Registered: 2007-02-05

Posts: 94

[solved][2.6.28] ext4dev -> ext4 panic on reboot

I just upgraded to 2.6.28 from testing and it panics on reboot trying to mount the root partition which is on ext4dev. Mkinitcpio _did_ give warnings about "ext4dev module not found", but I ignored it because I thought ext4 is now compiled in.

Tried already:

   rootfstype=ext4 (instead of ext4dev)
   replace ext4dev with ext4 in fstab (an uneducated guess, I know...)

Can I salvage my system somehow or is it reinstall time?

How should I have done it in the first place?

If this is a (possibly packaging) bug, please someone file it for me. Using elinks gives me nystagmus in five minutes.

Last edited by Rulatir (2008-12-27 09:39:04)

Rulatir

Banned

Registered: 2007-02-05

Posts: 94

Re: [solved][2.6.28] ext4dev -> ext4 panic on reboot

Solved. It turns out that this whole fallback thing is there for a reason Booted with fallback image, reinstalled kernel, edited grub.cfg to make rootfstype=ext4 permanent, now boots like charm.