Malcolm-Rannirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
the initrd is the thing that decides the filesystem to use. Maybe you're using an older initrd? The decision of which filesystem to use for the root filesystem is decided in mkinitrd.
