Bug#540296: ext4 related problems

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 01:05:42AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Not sure if the following are really bugs or if I'm just to stupid ;)
> 
> 1) Initramfs does not include ext4 module:

MODULES=most does,
so please specify a bit more what you are trying to do?

> a) I have a system whose root-fs is on ext3
> b) Copied (cp -a) the whole filesystem to another parition with ext4.
> b) mounted the ext4 to /mnt, and bind-mounted /dev /proc /sys to their  
> conterparts in /mnt/
> c) chrooted to /mnt/
> d) Now I invoke update-initramfs -u
> 
> => Only ext3 is added to the initramfs within the chroot.
> When I do a mount, the chroot only shows the mtab-data (and there is  
> of course no ext4 mount in it) /proc/mounts show it however.


please post output of
sh -x mkinitramfs /tmp/foo
 
 
 
> 2) Even when manually addting ext4 via /etc/initramfs-tools/modules it  
> does not boot:
> The initrd still tries to mount it as ext3 (which of course leads to  
> an error).
> fstab is correctly set to ext4
expected.