Re: mkinitrd troubles -- needs "sync"?

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:08:19PM +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org> wrote:
> > I am fairly frequently running into a problem where mkinitrd generates
> > empty images. (They're about 12k, with no contents.) I can find no rhyme
> > or reason to when this fails, and if you give -v, everything _looks_ to
> > be fine -- but sometimes it isn't.
> Would that be ext2 style initrd files or cpio style initrd files?

It's the old style -- so basically, as Jeremy Katz points out, this only
affects FC2.

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