Fiasco trying to upgrade fs from ext3 to ext4

It was afternoon when I tried my hands on trying to upgrade my filesysten from ext3 to ext4. I referred to :

http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#Converting_an_ext3_filesystem_to_ext4

As mentioned… I did the following :

<code style="white-space:nowrap;color:#495988;background-color:white;"># tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/<em>VolGroup00/LogVol00</em>

<code style="white-space:nowrap;color:#495988;background-color:white;"># e2fsck -fD /dev/<em>VolGroup00/LogVol00</em>

After quite some time, the procedure finally completed. I was so delighted that I did a sytem reboot to find that my system won’t boot. The reason, I didn’t update my kernel ramdisk image, and it tried to mount the / partition as ext3 and failed as the partition has already become ext4. What I forgot to do was :

#mv /boot/initrd-‘uname -r’.img /boot/initrd-‘uname -r’.img.bak

// this is to keep a backup of the existing initrd image

#mkinitrd -v –with=ext4 /boot/initrd-‘uname -r’.img ‘uname -r’

Also the following line in /etc/fstab :

UUID=fd296dfc-e7b3-4dc9-adf9-0038631d9c1f /                       ext3    defaults        1 1

needed to be updated as :

*UUID=fd296dfc-e7b3-4dc9-adf9-0038631d9c1f /                       ext4    defaults        1 1
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But, I was a bit hasty. I tried to correct this issue. I booted my system from the F11-Beta installed in my pocket hard drive. I learnt how to mount an LVM partition:

#vgchange -ay

#mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

I tried updating the initrd images in the mounted LVM partition to find that the kernel modules for the particular kernel version of the initrd image was not found. As F11-Beta was running on a newer kernel. Tried to update the initrd images on other similar system as mine, copied the respective files in /boot and pasted it in my /boot folder and I tried to boot. It didn’t boot and gave an error message saying :

cannot mount /dev/root to /sysroot

*Any suggestions?
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