Frans, My guess is that ext2, ext3 and cram fs are compiled as module for the Lenny installer kernel. If so, it will not work if initrd contains compressed ext image.
I know that the initrd images are build using cpio. The problem is that etch kernel for s390 is not able to mount initrd if it is built using cpio. I need to create a compressed file containing ext2 filesystem in order to be able to install etch. This is the procedure I used: cd /tmp; wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-s390/current/images/generic/initrd.debian cd /tmp; rm -rf initrd initrd.gz; dd if=/dev/zero of=initrd bs=10000000 count=1; /sbin/mke2fs -F -m0 initrd; mount -t ext2 -o loop initrd /mnt cd /mnt; cat /tmp/initrd.debian |gzip -d | cpio -i cd /tmp; umount /mnt; gzip -9 initrd mv initrd.gz initrd.debian This is the only method I found to install Debian etch. Why does Lenny install kernel does not say that it tried: ext2, ext3 and cramfs as Etch install kernel does? Peter On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Frans Pop<[email protected]> wrote: > (No need to CC me.) > > On Monday 03 August 2009, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote: >> How can I check if the kernel supports ext2, ext3 and cramfs? Looks >> like it does not... > > $ cat /proc/filesystems > > But note the the installer will only get some file system modules > available when additional installer components are loaded in the step > after a mirror has been selected. The initrd is an initramfs (compressed > cpio archive) and thus does not require any of these file systems, and > thus they may not be enabled/included in the generic kernel and initrd. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
