[ale] Redux: Reboot wedging problems after disk transplant

[John Mills]

Alers - 
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, John Mills wrote:

> I recently moved my RH-7.3 files to a larger HDD and now I am having 
> problems recovering from power outages.
 
> Boots after power loss now show 'filesystem integrity failure' and
> commonly, lost INODES. (I haven't verified yet whether they are repeat
> offenders.)  This means the system can't go through its automatic fixup
> cycle and eventually complete its reboot. When I need it from out of town, 
> this is a _RealPain_(TM)!

Reflecting on my problem, it occured to me there was _no_ reason the root
partition should be 'fsck'ed when it was mounted if my system boot set up
a ramdisk (rdinit), and indeed when I did my latest kernel upgrade I just
downloaded the sources, built kernel and modules, and set up a grub.conf
entry to boot from the HDD and kernel image.

How do I produce a suitable 'rdinit-<verson>.img' to use in my boot? Is
there a 'make' target for this? I have such images from the earlier 'rpm's
of my kernel and they're used to boot the system.

Thanks.

 John Mills
 john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu

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