Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> Recent (post 2.5.67) versions of the kernel break the creation
> of the initial ram disk.
hmm, so it did. It'll be the ext2 changes. mkinitrd works OK if you use
ext3:
--- mkinitrd.orig 2003-04-17 11:38:49.000000000 -0700
+++ mkinitrd 2003-04-17 11:39:01.000000000 -0700
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@
# We have to "echo y |" so that it doesn't complain about $IMAGE not
# being a block device
-echo y | mke2fs $LODEV $IMAGESIZE >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
+echo y | mke2fs -j $LODEV $IMAGESIZE >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
tune2fs -i0 $LODEV >/dev/null
if [ -n "$verbose" ]; then
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@
fi
mkdir -p $MNTPOINT
-mount -t ext2 $LODEV $MNTPOINT || {
+mount -t ext3 $LODEV $MNTPOINT || {
echo "Can't get a loopback device"
exit 1
}
I'll take a look...
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