4.3.1 supports ext4, but the init script ignores ext4 drives

[jemimah]

Add ext4 to this line in the init script to fix.

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PCPARTS0="`echo "$PCPARTSALL" | grep '^/dev/' | cut -f 1-2 -d '|'  | grep -E 'iso9660|ext2|ext3|reiserfs|msdos|vfat|minix|ntfs' | sed -e 's/\/dev\///g'`"

[BarryK]

Download Woof and get the latest 'init' script, has many more bug fixes.

[c.cobb]

Where exactly does the init script reside? I'd like to learn more about startup, but all I find for init is a symlink to busybox. I'm missing something basic! Also, which Woof package would contain new init? I tried downloading the busybox[...].pet package but same thing: init's just a symlink. (Rather not download all of Woof just yet.) Thanks!

[jemimah]

You have to open the initrd.

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mkdir initrddir
cp initrd.gz initrddir
cd initrddir
gunzip initrd.gz
cat initrd |cpio -id
rm initrd

To repack:

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cd initrddir
find . | cpio -H newc -o > ../initrd
cd ..
gzip -9 initrd

You can get the new script by building a puplet from woof and extracting it from the resulting initrd.

[c.cobb]

Thank you very much. I thought that, after the pivot, the initrd fs was mounted under /initrd so was just looking under there. Lots to learn. Cheers,