ext4 disaster
Bob Gustafson
bobgus at rcn.com
Sat Jun 13 08:30:03 UTC 2009
Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On 06/12/2009 07:27 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
>> So you suggest use rescue cd, chroot. Then, exactly what is needed?
>> Simply
>> mkinitrd? Why would it work when run manually, but not when anaconda
>> set it
>> up?
>
> Did you re-format when you re-installed?
>
> If not, does your fstab say 'ext4' or 'ext3'? That's where mkinitrd
> gets its marching orders. IIRC, without extents you can mount ext4 as
> ext3.
>
> -Bill
>
As I recall, I think F11 is set up to use only ext3 on /boot. Something
about anaconda or the kernel not accepting ext4 - yet. Check the
documentation on this point.
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