On Wednesday 27 March 2002 08:33 pm, Kevin J. Maciunas wrote: > > I tried to use ext3 as my root partition (diskdrake is quite happy to > > let you set this up). However the system was unusable on booting as > > it appears to be unable to mount the root partition (it will load the > > initrd and get part way into the boot sequence, but if I try booting > > without the initrd it kernal panics).
> I have ext3 root fs without any problems at all... I have a manually partitioned drive. I was actually upgrading and just wiped the previous reiserfs root partition to try ext3, the other partitions are still reiserfs. As far as I can tell it kept trying to mount root as if it were a reiserfs partition (changing fstab didn't affect it). I could find nothing in the setup that affected it. I ended up wiping the partition again and formating it as a reiserfs partition again and it worked. > All set up by the install. So it works, which points to a problem with > your particular setup. I have no idea what was different about mine. > Apropos KDE, sorry, I plead GNOME :-) KDE bits and pieces work just > fine for me under 8.2 however.. Bits and pieces work under a gnome desktop fine. It's just using full KDE that's the kiss of death for it. -- "Understanding is a three-edged sword." - Kosh to Talia Winters in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" <<------------------------------------------------------------------>> << This email is monitored by the US government under the auspice >> << of the USA act. For private communication, ask me for my PGP key >>
