mkinitrd w/ 2.4.18

hi there,

i'm having problems getting mkinitrd to work with 2.4.18 in a redhat 7.2 system. are there any kernel options that i should be aware of to get this to work properly that i'm somehow missing?

thanks
-matt

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Try this patch:

diff -ur mkinitrd-3.2.6-orig/mkinitrd mkinitrd-3.2.6/mkinitrd
@@ -309,9 +309,9 @@
     echo "Using modules: $MODULES"
 fi
 
-MNTIMAGE=`mktemp -d /tmp/initrd.XXXXXX`
-IMAGE=`mktemp /tmp/initrd.img.XXXXXX`
-MNTPOINT=`mktemp -d /tmp/initrd.mnt.XXXXXX`
+MNTIMAGE=$(mktemp -d $TMPDIR/initrd.XXXXXX) || exit 1
+IMAGE=$(mktemp $TMPDIR/initrd.img.XXXXXX) || exit 1
+MNTPOINT=$(mktemp -d $TMPDIR/initrd.mnt.XXXXXX) || exit 1
 RCFILE=$MNTIMAGE/linuxrc
 
 if [ -z "$MNTIMAGE" -o -z "$IMAGE" -o -z "$MNTPOINT" ]; then

As far as I know Red Hat's latest mkinitrd (in rawhide?) has fixed this problem. Also, don't forget to set TMPDIR to somewhere other than a tmpfs filesystem. You see, you cannot bind regular files on a tmpfs to loopback devices.

Regards,
Tigran

Thanks everyone for the advice, it's now working. Embarringly enough it was a simple case of insmoding loop.o.

thanks again.

matt