zentara wrote:
This has been asked before. There is a bug in the suse mk_initrd that prevents it front booting to ext3.
There is a fix: http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/ext3_rootfs_73.html
I knew I had seen something on this on the list, but couldn't remember the URL. Now I have a question. My / is ext3, which I setup when I installed. I knew there was some problem with mk_initrd, but couldn't find the new one. I have used YOU, which updated the package aaa_base, where rpm -qf /sbin/mk_initrd told me it was from. I just downloaded the one from the ftp site above, and diff shows there are differences between these scripts. My confusion arises since I have since upgraded the kernel (and switched back and forth to fix some glitches), and of course run mk_initrd several times (but I believe I had already updated aaa_base before running it the first time), and it worked like a champ. So is it a case of "don't fix what ain't broke", the aaa_base-2001.10.19-1 already fixed it (then why the differences), or the one above is an older 'fix'. I am curious as to whether I should replace my mk_initrd script, especially since I have an ext3 /. TIA for any help. :-) -- Joe & Sesil Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871