Kernel panic with reiserfs as root

[Joel Hammer]

Never have I seen such bad documentation as with mkinitrd. I couldn't figure
out how to use it from the man page. Naturally, I tried mkinitrd -h. This is
what it showed:

mkinitrd:  initial ramdisk creation utility.

usage:     mkinitrd <options> output_file

options:        --help         this screen
                -h

                --ignore     ignore devices.inf / harddrive.inf files
                -n

                --debug              print debugging information
                -d

                --include <module>   include <module>
                -i <module>

                --kernel <version>   set kernel version (override default)
                -k

                --preload <module>   ensures that <module> is loaded first.
                -l                   NOTE:  no dependancy checking!

Note the complete lack of consistency with the manpage.

     mkinitrd  [-k]  [-d  confdir]  [-m  command] -o outfile [-r root]

This was when I gave up on mkinitrd.

Joel


On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 07:07:11AM -0700, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Joel Hammer wrote:
> 
> >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. 
> >  
> >
> 
> hmm... isn't that what mkinitrd does?
> 
> from the man page:
> 
> NAME
>        mkinitrd - make an initrd image
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>        mkinitrd  [-k]  [-d  confdir]  [-m  command] -o outfile [-r root] 
> [mod-
>        uledir]
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>        The mkinitrd script constructs a directory structure that can 
> serve  as
>        an initrd root file system.  It then generates an image 
> containing that
>        directory structure using mkcramfs(8), which can be  loaded  
> using  the
>        initrd mechanism.  The kernel modules placed in the directory 
> structure
>        will be taken from moduledir.  This  defaults  to  
> /lib/modules/$(uname
>        -r).
> 
>        The  directory  structure  can  be  customised  by ........
> 
> 
> 
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