From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Recent changes broke mkinitrd?
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 11:40:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030417114016.6b7074f1.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030417111303.706d7246.shemminger@osdl.org>
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...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-17 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-17 18:13 Stephen Hemminger
2003-04-17 18:40 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-04-17 19:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-04-17 19:21 ` [patch] Fix orlov allocator boundary case Andrew Morton
2003-04-17 20:25 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-04-17 21:27 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-04-17 21:57 ` Andrew Morton
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