Kernel panic with reiserfs as root

[Joel Hammer]

No, but I downloaded mkinitrd. The instructions for it were a bit beyond me.
I did not see where mkintrd allowed for building a file system, which
seemed to be part of the initrd.gz that came with lindows.

The initrd.gz when unzipped and mounted with mount -o loop a la the
step by step showed a file system with bin, etc,modules, proc, a few
modules (reiserfs among them) and also some devices (console, ram0 ?)
and some binaries like insmod. I just couldn't see how to create this
from mkinitrd. 

Joel



On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 09:34:32PM -0400, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> Does Lindows have a mkinitrd?  I know RH 7.3 did and Caldera had a script 
> for it.  I've never had to mess with cramfs to use initrd and I used it a 
> lot on Caldera.  However, on RH and Gentoo I make sure support for 1) 
> devices - I have all SCSI disks- and 2) my filesystem - XFS is built into 
> the kernel so I don't need an initrd.  
> 
> 
> Joel Hammer wrote:
> 
> 
> > Big help, no? I think that mkcrampfs is used in making initrd.gz, but,
> > how would I know? Anyway, the initrd.gz file has a directory structure
> > I had no idea had to make. I think I solved the problem with my best
> -- 
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