mkinitrd-4.0.0-1 might be broken

[Bill Nottingham]

Steve G (linux_4ever at yahoo.com) said: 
> I built the latest from rawhide and installed the 503 kernel. I did a:
> 
>  mkinitrd  vmlinuz 2.6.7-1.503.build
> 
> And rebooted the system. On the way up, I got a message saying the "switchroot
> mount failed" and it panic'ed. Removing the mkinitrd package and backtracking to
> mkinitrd-3.5.24-1 fixed the problem.
> 
> Has anyone else noticed this problem? Is mkinitrd-4.0.0 supposed to work with
> current rawhide or does it have (unstated) dependencies on packages yet to be
> released?

mkinitrd-4.x uses initramfs by default; this support almost certainly
has some bugs left to be worked out.

Bill