> There's been some issues recently (mostly with usb I think) with > some of the fast boot features that have come from the Intel > Moblin patchset. I'm not sure whether this could be coming into > play or whether I have got completely the wrong end of the > stick.
The part that has me most confused is that the specific error message we get from mount should only ever appear if jffs2 is not in /proc/filesystems, which should only ever happen if the kernel module wasn't loaded. The kernel module obviously is loaded sometimes, since boot works sometimes, but somehow not on the failing boots. I wonder what's responsible for loading it; whether it's the initrd scripts or mount itself that calls modprobe jffs2.
If you install the nash package (if its not there anyway) there's a lsinitrd command that gives you the contents of the initrd package including the initrd script that's run. Maybe there's been a change in the order of the script or something.
Peter