[KLUG Members] Re: Laptop reiser corruption and fixing it

[Bryan J. Smith]

Bruce Smith wrote:
> I think you missed the point.  (I didn't explain it very well)
> Do this (not really) on a Redhat 7.2 SCSI system w/ stock RH
> kernel:
>   rmdir /initrd

I've never seen an "/initrd" directory.
>   # now wait a few weeks and forget you removed that directory,
>   # and forget all about this conversation.
>   shutdown -r 0
> Guess what?  Your system will NOT BOOT!  And you have no idea why.
> (because you forgot about this conversation and the error message
> isn't any help - cannot load init program, or some such)
> It took me a long time to figure out Redhat NOW requires a
> directory named /initrd when you are using an initrd during the
> boot.  (this is a _NEW_ requirement)

???  I'm running 7.2 and using an initrd, but I created it myself.

> It has nothing to do with GRUB or LILO or the fact that I just
> upgraded to the new Redhat kernel right before the reboot.  (the
> old kernel no longer booted either).  And my backup partition
> didn't boot either because it was copied over after I removed
> /initrd.  (and that has nothing to do with a tar vs. cpio copy
> either :)

???  I'm still not following why RedHat requires the directory?

-- Bryan

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