Package: e2fsprogs
Version: 1.37-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
I submitted a patch to initrd-tools that stops the initrd /sbin/init script
from trying to mount the root device if it is
an NFS device. This patch has been accepted. see:
http://bugs.debian.org/307471
An NFS root setup can be identified as rootdev=255. The initrd script from
e2fsprogs would work better with
netboot-initrd-tools package if a simmilar test could be included in the
ext3-add-journal script.
A two line patch to trap this in the same manner as initrd-tools is attached.
Regards
Alex Owen
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages e2fsprogs depends on:
ii e2fslibs 1.37-2 ext2 filesystem libraries
ii libblkid1 1.37-2 block device id library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcomerr2 1.37-2 common error description library
ii libss2 1.37-2 command-line interface parsing lib
ii libuuid1 1.37-2 universally unique id library
-- no debconf information
--- ./debian/initrd.ext3-add-journal.orig 2004-09-18 17:08:59.000000000
+0100
+++ ./debian/initrd.ext3-add-journal 2005-05-23 15:08:09.000000000 +0100
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
cmdline=$(cat /proc/cmdline)
umount -n proc
if [ $rootdev != 256 ]; then
+ if [ $rootdev != 255 ]; then
mount -nt tmpfs tmpfs /dev2
get_device
roottype=`/bin/e2initrd_helper -r /dev2/root2`
@@ -24,4 +25,5 @@
fi
umount -n /dev2
umount -n /proc > /dev/null 2>&1
+ fi
fi
