ext4 disaster

Bill McGonigle bill at bfccomputing.com
Fri Jun 12 23:55:19 UTC 2009


On 06/12/2009 07:27 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
> So you suggest use rescue cd, chroot.  Then, exactly what is needed?  Simply
> mkinitrd?  Why would it work when run manually, but not when anaconda set it
> up?

Did you re-format when you re-installed?

If not, does your fstab say 'ext4' or 'ext3'?  That's where mkinitrd 
gets its marching orders.  IIRC, without extents you can mount ext4 as ext3.

-Bill

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