Upgrade to ext4, how?

Andrew Farris lordmorgul at gmail.com
Mon Apr 7 20:51:37 UTC 2008


Martin Sourada wrote:
> Just to be precise - the kernels of which the initrd images were
> generated before the /etc/fstab change worked, the kernels with initrd
> images generated after the change failed on switch_root. But I clearly
> remember I used ext4 (not ext4dev) at first, so when I fixed the
> computer (and could boot again into rawhide) I tried changing it to
> ext4dev for one of the kernels and it didn't worked (switch_root error
> again). Maybe I made some typo in the fstab...

Well you need to create a new initrd after fstab changes, or reinstall the 
kernel, so when you try ext4dev make sure that happens.  The switch_root thing 
is an initrd problem, so you're on the right track with it I think.

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