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[Viljo Mustonen <viljo.mustonen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sid Boyce kirjoitti:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> > The Sunday 2007-12-02 at 19:04 -0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
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> > > When I boot from 10.3 x86_64 DVD or from the ext3 drive, I can mount
> > > the jfs partition, also chroot works. In rescue mkinitrd also says
> > > the jfs module is included. I may try with jfs in front of ext3 in
> > > case it's due to a race condition.
> >
> > I think you need a small /boot partition in ext2 format.
> >
> > - -- Cheers,
> > Carlos E. R.
>
> That would be a step a long way back in time. I thought slicing and
> dicing a separate /boot partition went out with the need for steam
> trains, when PC BIOS restrictions meant you couldn't boot from a
> partition extending beyond the first 1024 cylinders. If the partition
> is ext3, reiserfs or anything else, it doesn't matter and I suspect
> jfs wouldn't be that immature. Having said that, there is a gremlin in
> there somewhere.
> Perhaps later this week I shall try a new 10.3 jfs install on a
> relative's box currently running 10.0, we have a spare 160G IDE drive
> sitting there ready.

This problem exist also ext3 -> reiserfs change, perhaps in every file

system change.
Man mkinitrd tels:

       What should you do if the initrd is broken and you want to fix it
using
       a  chroot?   I  assume  /mnt  is  your target root and /boot is
mounted
       inside.

              1. mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
              2. chroot /mnt
              3. mount /proc
              4. mount /sys
              5. mkinitrd

This worked in my 32 bit system.

Old times it was much simpler.  :) 
 
-- Viljo


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