Martin Michlmayr wrote:
* Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> [2010-01-17 01:13]:I cannot reproduce the problem though. If I install a system with an ext4 root file system and MODULES=dep for initramfs-tools, the ext4 module gets correctly included in the initrd and the installed system boots fine.Didn't he say that he installed Debian and *then* converted the disk to ext4. This would explain why the ext4 module is not included - the disk wasn't ext4 when the ramdisk was generated.
No, I started with ext4. I then hit problems with the swap partition which I fixed manually. I don't know whether that was somehow related to the missing ext4 support. But then ext4 was in the installer environment so maybe not.
Then I installed (or re-installed - I can't quite remember, but I think I could mount what was nominally an ext4 partition as ext3 in rescue mode and then complete boot the installation) on ext3. Maybe that was when a new initrd was generated without ext4: not sure.
After getting a working ext3 installation, I then went into rescue mode to convert to ext4 manually. Rebooting then caused problems - as now expected since my initrd didn't include ext4.
Will experiment more later today: I ought to try the whole thing with ext3 and see if I get swap partition problems again.
ael