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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 11:40:16 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Recent changes broke mkinitrd?
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Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> Recent (post 2.5.67) versions of the kernel break the creation
> of the initial ram disk.

hmm, so it did.  It'll be the ext2 changes.  mkinitrd works OK if you use
ext3:

--- mkinitrd.orig	2003-04-17 11:38:49.000000000 -0700
+++ mkinitrd	2003-04-17 11:39:01.000000000 -0700
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@
 
 # We have to "echo y |" so that it doesn't complain about $IMAGE not
 # being a block device
-echo y | mke2fs $LODEV $IMAGESIZE >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
+echo y | mke2fs -j $LODEV $IMAGESIZE >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
 tune2fs -i0 $LODEV >/dev/null
 
 if [ -n "$verbose" ]; then
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@
 fi
 
 mkdir -p $MNTPOINT
-mount -t ext2 $LODEV $MNTPOINT || {
+mount -t ext3 $LODEV $MNTPOINT || {
 	echo "Can't get a loopback device"
 	exit 1
 }

I'll take a look...