Mr. Rugolsky: I am curious about a few things, perhaps you can advise me. (a) I just went to rawhide, and I saw that the current version of the RPM you suggested to update is now version 3.4.13 vice 3.4.12, I presume it makes little difference to have the newer version with RH 7.3? (b) Once I install the new mkinitrd, if I need to rebuild my kernel anyway, ought that also create a new and proper initrd for me? (c) if I did not need to rebuild my kernel, but in fact did a make install, would that not also rebuild my mkinitrd? (d) Will the fact that I am updating mkinitrd affect any of the kernel make files or scripts? Thanks in advance for your assistance. Very Respectfully, Stuart Blake Tener, IT3 (E-4), USNR-R, N3GWG Beverly Hills, California VTU 1904G (Volunteer Training Unit) stuart@bh90210.net west coast: (310)-358-0202 P.O. Box 16043, Beverly Hills, CA 90209-2043 east coast: (215)-338-6005 P.O. Box 45859, Philadelphia, PA 19149-5859 Telecopier: (419)-715-6073 fax to email gateway via www.efax.com (it's free!) JOIN THE US NAVY RESERVE, SERVE YOUR COUNTRY, AND BENEFIT FROM IT ALL. Saturday, July 13, 2002 2:52 PM -----Original Message----- From: Bill Rugolsky Jr. [mailto:brugolsky@telemetry-investments.com] Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 12:45 PM To: Tener, Stuart B., IT3 , USNR-R Cc: ext3-users@redhat.com Subject: Re: Changing journaling mode on root / loop-aes On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 11:40:26AM -0700, Tener, Stuart B., IT3 , USNR-R wrote: > (c) I then made sure that /etc/fstab had the "data=journal" > option in the root partition entry. Then I verified that > "rootflags=data=journal" was placed in the /etc/grub/grub.conf file > properly, and rebooted. However, the same result occurred the "03:06" > boot error...AGAIN!?! ARGH!!! Sorry to join this party late, but .... You say elsewhere in this thread that you are using a RH7.3ish system with an initrd. But the rootflags=data=journal flag is only for use when ext3 is compiled into the kernel. [Someday Rusty Russell will unify param handling, $DEITY willing.] When using an initrd with the ext3 and jbd modules, you need to place the appropriate options in /etc/fstab, and remake the initrd. Caveat: the version of mkinitrd that shipped with RH7.3 does not do this automatically. In fact, it was added on 2002/05/21 by Erik Troan: * Tue May 21 2002 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com> - use options from fstab for root filesystem (56071) [Courtesy of "rpm -q --changelog mkinitrd" on my box.] The number in parentheses is the bugzilla number; see http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56071 So what you have to do is go to Rawhide and grab a recent mkinitrd, install it with rpm -Uvh mkinitrd-*.i386.rpm, then rebuild your initrd. Something like: rpm -Uvh mkinitrd-3.4.12.i386.rpm cp /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.sav mkinitrd -v /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img `uname -r` and reboot. Regards, Bill Rugolsky
