Re: [Cooker] 8.2b3, mkinitrd causes system lockup

2002-02-27 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau

Tomas Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On both computers I have one reiserfs partition on which / resides and 
> a swap partition. It's IDE (no scsi) and / is /dev/hda2.
> 
> The kernel I'm trying to compile is 2.4.18-ac2 (not mdk), I verified 
> by trying to rebuild the initrd of the 2.4.17+preempt+lockbreak kernel 
> I'm using presently and it locks up too.
> 
> Should I try an mdk kernel?

We can't give you support if you don't use our kernel..


[...]

> Creating filesystem with size 400KB and 43 inodes
> mke2fs 1.26 (3-Feb-2002)
> 

At the moment when the e2fs filesystem is built using loopback.
Could it be you have a problem with your loopback?


> PS: Since I'm only using initrd for the reiserfs module I guess I 
> could just compile it in an not use initrd anymore...

Yes but be informed that you won't be able to provide mount
options (such as notail for reiserfs for example).

 
> Thanks in advance for any help, looking forward to Mandrake 8.2


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Re: [Cooker] 8.2b3, mkinitrd causes system lockup

2002-02-27 Thread Tomas Perez

Hi again,

> > Should I try an mdk kernel?
> 
> We can't give you support if you don't use our kernel..

Well I would If I could :)

[root@grunt:root]# rpm -ihv /home/tomas/tmp/get/kernel-2.4.17.22mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
Preparing...### [100%]
   1:kernel-2.4.17.22mdk### [100%]
mke2fs 1.26 (3-Feb-2002)


> At the moment when the e2fs filesystem is built using loopback.
> Could it be you have a problem with your loopback?

Thanks for the pointer, that might be the problem. I'll have to look 
into it a bit further.

Regards
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