Hello, I have been following the cooker development for some time now regularly upgrading. However, due to different reasons the upgrading was halted for the last half year. When starting the upgrade again in December from a situation around some time before 9.0 and halfway through I got stuck. No kernels boot any longer, the following message is displayed:
EXT2-fs: ide0(3,65): couldn't mount beacuse of unsupported optional features (4). Kernel panic: VFS: unbootable mount root fs on 03:41. I have been able to mount the partitions (including /) using rescue mode kernels with ext3 fs, both for 8.1 and 9.0 CD's. All partitions have been checked and I can use chroot to simulate my system. Also the zip drive can be mounted so upgrading using packages from 8.1, 9.0 using CD and the cooker directory using the zip drive have been attempted. No success so far :-( The problem is that the kernel tries to mount the partitions in EXT2 mode and some features does not seem to be backwards compatible... Also mounting in EXT2 mode for the 8.1 CD using the 2.4.8 kernel gives the same error message as above. The /etc/modules file consist of the following entries: ext3 (no difference without) ide-floppy (for the zip) but the boot process does not come far enough for this file to be read... A couple of questions: 1. Which is the minimal list of packages needed for a succesful boot? 2. depmod -a for the wanted kernels result in a lot of unresolved symbols. Does this have any effect on the problems to boot the root partition. Following the boot process on other boxes it seems that depmod is run _after_ root is mounted, meaning that having correct dependencies are not so important _before_ the root partiion is mounted. 3. Which boot scripts are executed up to mounting of the partitions given in fstab, which packages contain these scripts and which configuration files are needed? 4. Is support for ext2 compiled in and ext3 is a module for kernels 2.4.18-16,-18, 2.4.20-2? How to get the ext3 module loaded correctly?? 5. How do you most easily switch between lilo and grub (not using any *Drake tools)? Packages installed (partial list): SysVinit-2.84-1mdk.i586.rpm lilo-22.3.4-1mdk.i586.rpm basesystem-9.0-3mdk.i586.rpm bash-2.05b-11mdk.i586.rpm e2fsprogs-1.32-2mdk.i586.rpm modutils-2.4.22-3mdk.i586.rpm glibc-2.3.1-6mdk.i586.rpm mount-2.11x-2mdk.i586.rpm glibc-profile-2.3.1-6mdk.i586.rpm nscd-2.3.1-6mdk.i586.rpm initscripts-6.91-18mdk.i586.rpm setup-2.2.0-33mdk.i586.rpm ldconfig-2.3.1-6mdk.i586.rpm timezone-2.3.1-6mdk.i586.rpm libext2fs2-1.32-2mdk.i586.rpm util-linux-2.11x-2mdk.i586.rpm libext2fs2-devel-1.32-2mdk.i586.rpm zlib1-1.1.4-3mdk.i586.rpm
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