Martin Michlmayr wrote:
* Frans Pop <elen...@planet.nl> [2010-01-17 01:13]:
I cannot reproduce the problem though. If I install a system with an ext4
root file system and MODULES=dep for initramfs-tools, the ext4 module gets
correctly included in the initrd and the installed system boots fine.
Didn't he say that he installed Debian and *then* converted the disk
to ext4. This would explain why the ext4 module is not included - the
disk wasn't ext4 when the ramdisk was generated.
No, I started with ext4. I then hit problems with the swap partition
which I fixed manually. I don't know whether that was somehow related to
the missing ext4 support. But then ext4 was in the installer environment
so maybe not.
Then I installed (or re-installed - I can't quite remember, but I think
I could mount what was nominally an ext4 partition as ext3 in rescue
mode and then complete boot the installation) on ext3. Maybe that was
when a new initrd was generated without ext4: not sure.
After getting a working ext3 installation, I then went into rescue mode
to convert to ext4 manually. Rebooting then caused problems - as now
expected since my initrd didn't include ext4.
Will experiment more later today: I ought to try the whole thing with
ext3 and see if I get swap partition problems again.
ael
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