On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 07:58:06PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On 15.III.2004 at 06:10 Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Will followup with the partman log next time i try. > > This is not going to help much in that case. > > There are three cases for not showing ext3 as possible file system: > > 1. partman-ext3 is not installed for some reason > > 2. the kernel module for ext3 is not present > > 3. partman-ext3 doesn't detect that the ext3 module is loaded in the > kernel. > > In order to check 3. partman does this: > > 1. Tries to find ext3 in /proc/modules > 2. If this fails then does modprobe ext3 > 3. Finaly tries to find ext3 in /proc/filesystems > > Please send the contents of the files /proc/modules and > /proc/filesystems. Check also if the kernel module for ext3 is in > /lib/modules.
Well, the problem is as follows : 1) the -powerpc kernel used in most 32 bit powerpc installs has the ext3 fs builtin. 2) the -powerpc-small kernel used in oldworld pmacs, but not yet supported by d-i, has a ext3 module. Partman wrongly supposes that ext3 is modular, and follows up into installing and insmodding the -powerpc-small modules into the -powerpc kernel. No idea if this succeeds or not, but this is dead wrong. Maybe the search for ext3 in /proc/filesystems could be moved well up this list ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
