From: Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [bug] broken loopback fs in 2.4.15-ish kernels?
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 16:11:23 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20011123161123.ast@domdv.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111231546190.18284-100000@localhost.localdomain>
I did experiment with romfs on 2.4.15pre7 which did not work (initrd loader
detected romfs, I could loop mount it but the kernel didn't root mount it).
Funny enough using ext2 did work as expected. Maybe there's a common reason.
On 23-Nov-2001 Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> just noticed that rpm -i kernel-2.4.9-13.i386.rpm does not work anymore
> because a corrupted initrd gets created by mkinitrd. It smelled like
> pagecache corruption so i did not experiment much. This was with
> 2.4.15-pre9. Once i booted back into a 2.4.13-based kernel and re-did the
> rpm -i, the initrd was created correctly.
>
> things are pretty recent:
>
> [root@mars root]# rpm -q mkinitrd
> mkinitrd-3.2.6-1
> [root@mars root]# rpm -q rpm
> rpm-4.0.3-1.03
>
> anyone seeing anything similar?
>
> Ingo
>
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Andreas Steinmetz
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2001-11-23 14:48 Ingo Molnar
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