Re: Problem with mkinitrd / modutils - broken initrd's 2.4.18 &2.4.20

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On 8 Jan 2003, Adam Manock wrote:

> cat /etc/fstab
> LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults       
> 1 1
> LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults
> ...
> ...
> 
> / and /boot are mounted fine. I don't think labels are the problem. I

<shrug>
Show us the labels.

> certainly haven't changed the partitioning of this box since the October
> RH8 install. Therefore labels should be as disk druid / the RH installer
> left them.
> 
> Grub finds / just fine to load the original initrd also.
> 
> If I make a change like:
> 
> title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-19.8.0)
>         root (hd0,2)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-19.8.0 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
>         initrd /initrd-2.4.18-19.8.0.img.bogus
> 
> I get different errors, without the kernel booting through the IDE stuff
> first. :-)
> 
> Adam
> 
> On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 09:39, John wrote:
> > On 5 Jan 2003, Adam Manock wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > mount: error 16 mounting proc 
> > > Creating block devices 
> > > Creating root device 
> > > mkrootdev: label / not found 
> > > Mounting root filesystem 
> > > kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k ext3, errno = 2 
> > > kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k freeext3, errno = 2 
> > > mount: error 9 mounting ext3 
> > > ... 
> > > ... 
> > 
> > Looks to me your root filesystem's not labelled any more.
> > 
> > Boot your rescue disk and check with e2label:
> > [root@gateway log]# e2label /dev/hda1
> > /boot
> > [root@gateway log]# e2label /dev/hda2
> > /
> > 
> > You can relabel a partition:
> > e2label /dev/hda1 /boot
> > 
> > 
> > Or you can change your /detc/fstab to reflect the device names.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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