On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 06:02:37PM -0700, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > On 9/18/07, John Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yes, I can mount, unmount, fsck, ls, etc. under Ubuntu. But the kernel > > loaded in the VM cannot. And I've tried several different kernels... > > I've gone back and compiled ext2 and ext3 statically and as modules, > > etc. > > > > > I am not aware of any strange changes made to ext2 that would make a > > > newer version unreadable by a far older kernel (2.4.18). > > > > Someone had suggested that an ext2 or ext3 filesystem created by a newer > > Linux wouldn't work under an older Red Hat, so I even created and > > formatted the partition with a Red Hat 7.3 rescue CD. > > > > And I'm having the exact same problem with a Red Hat 9 VM. If I keep > > screwing around, I can get it to kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root > > fs on 08:02 Like http://www.john-oliver.net/nllnk01-2.GIF We can see > > that /dev/sda is seen just fine, and that /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 are > > seen as well. This may be the result of not having the right > > combination of ext2 and/or ext3 compiled as a module or statically or > > whatever the heck it wants so it will start to bomb out with the > > superblock error again. > > Step back and reconsider what your real goal is. > > If you can read the original file system using a live CD, then just > copy it all to a clean file system on another drive. Using your > choice of command-line tools. Note that mkisofs will gladly make > multi-gigabyte ISO files that can be loop mounted.
My goal is to successfully boot the VMs with these filesystems. I created the VMs, created filesystems, and rsynced the contents of the live machines. What is copying everything again going to accomplish? -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
