Re: PATCH: kernel mount of initrd fails unless mke2fs uses 1024 byte

[Alexander Viro]

On Thu, 9 May 2002, Post, Mark K wrote:

> Alan, Andries, IBMers,
> 
> Here are the documentation patches that relate to the initrd problem I
> reported previously.  (The mke2fs command had to specify -b 1024, or it
> couldn't be mounted at boot time by the kernel.)  This submission is against
> the 2.4.18 kernel.  If they're acceptable, I'll do another one for the
> 2.2.20 version.

ramdisk_blocksize=<desired block size>

and yes, it's a kludge.