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Re: Help me!! Kernel Panic!!



On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 09:41:04AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Jerome Acks Jr <jracksjr@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 11:52:55PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> >> This should not be necessary.  In fact, it's probably a bug if your
> >> box doesn't work without it.
> > 
> > Is your statement in reference to putting the root file system module in
> > /etc/mkinitrd/modules or, putting "jbd" in /etc/mkinitrd/modules?
> 
> Both, in fact, if you have to touch /etc/mkinitrd at all, it either means
> that you've got a very esoteric setup (e.g., NFS root), or that there is
> a bug in initrd-tools

I used to need to put "ext3" before "ext2" in /etc/mkinitrd/modules.
Then who was talking... he must be right.  Now I know a related bug was
closed recently.

  http://bugs.debian.org/135537

Time to update it :)

Version: 0.1.26
 Distribution: unstable
 Urgency: low
 Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
...
 Changes:
  initrd-tools (0.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
    * Added recursive probing for RAID.
    * Handle errors within cpio pipeline (closes: #148061).
    * Allow initrd image with no modules (closes: #151386).
    * Only mount /proc if mounts is not there (closes: #151318).
    * Improved error message for unknown root devices (closes: #154712).
    * Use pivot_root (closes: #135537).

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