kernels after 2.6.8-1.533 fubared?

[Alex Kiernan]

On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 13:17:36 +0100, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 22:07 +1000, Colin Charles wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 18:04, Alex Kiernan wrote:
> > > I've tried a couple of kernels post 2.6.8-1.533 and they all die on
> > > switching to the new root as a pile of journal_ symbols are missing
> > > from the ext3 module.
> >
> > .540 should be fine, x86 users have .541 issues
> >
> > > Just me, or are others seeing this?
> >
> > My iMac DV is running .541, and I'm happy to report, it all seems to
> > "just work". Weird, especially with heaps complaining on
> > fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> 
> I'm runnig .538, and I have run .541 but reverted due to the scary
> reports of ext3 corruption. I suspect the problem is with
> module-init-tools -- I was seeing modprobe segfault at one point
> recently, and if mkinitrd is using modprobe to list the dependencies of
> the ext3.ko module then we could miss jbd.ko out of the initrd.
> 
> Rebuild your initrd and check it contains jbd.ko. If not, try an older
> (or newer) module-init-tools.
> 

Yup, thats it - jbd.ko isn't getting included. Do a --preload on it at
mkinitrd time & it all works.

-- 
Alex Kiernan