Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 23 Nov 2001 16:11:23 +0100 (CET) | From | Andreas Steinmetz <> | Subject | RE: [bug] broken loopback fs in 2.4.15-ish kernels? |
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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 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
Andreas Steinmetz D.O.M. Datenverarbeitung GmbH - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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