Description of Problem: Chapter 23 and Appendix A don't mention that creating an initrd image is necessary to boot from an ext3 filesystem with kernels using the standard Red Hat configuration. Only using SCSI adapters is mentioned as a reason for creating an initrd. This will result in an unbootable system for someone who follows the guide to upgrade a system with ext3 on IDE drives (see message-ID <1007755456.210568.gblx.net> in comp.os.linux.misc). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhl-cg(EN)-7.2-HTML-RHI (2001-08-30T14:29-0400) How Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional Information:
I have confirmed this with our kernel team and fixed this in CVS for the next release. Thanks you for your report.