> Generally I stay away from using rawhide RPMs since they can > have bugs and as I understand it, and is not production level ready. > Thus, it is quite interesting that if there is a fix for this (which is > script based, not code needing recompilation and distribution of new > binaries), why there is no new update available via up2date? > > I will get the most recent mkinitrd from the rawhide > distribution, and see if it fixes the problem. > This is the most complicated way to boot a linux box that I ever heared. Why dont't you simple recompile your kernel with ext3 support and boot your box using lilo. Cheers Ivan