On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 14:41:20 +0100, David Baron wrote: > I apparently do have ext3 around as a module. This is an endemic knoppix > problem, apparently, since I am not the only one to have gotten that > "mounting ext3 as ext2" warning after making the switch. > > I need some hand-holding to get it either in an initrd (putting ext3 in the > mkinitrd/modules file and running mkinitrd gives me its help list only and > does nothing) or to compile it into the kernel itself.
This is a double endemic problem, actually. Knoppix and Debian. Debian for still unclear kernel management (I have yet to find anything comprehensible and complete). The solution here: I loop-mounted initrd (which is just a basic file system) and edited the correct hd-partition into it. Works and boots root to ext3. Almost. At shutdown it still whines about cannot umount: umount local filesystems umount2 device or resources busy umount: /dev/hda7: not mounted and then it recovers the journal once per (re-)boot. I wished Debian had a suitable installer (I wouldn't repeat my ordeal with Woody and the Sarge-netinstaller here. Find it elsewhere), so that we wouldn't need the Knoppix-hdinstall. But that's how life is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
