The target system is PCLinusOS (Mandrake). Some 2.4.2(something) kernel. The host is Debian (testing). The partition is not marked as bootable (who cares about it?)
The kernel loads, and when it shuold remount the rootfs it dies with error: "EXT2-fs: ide(3,3): couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (4). Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:03." The file system was made by running "mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda3" Didi, Not sure what my problem is, just shooting in blindly in the air. If anyone knows the relevant code of the kernel I could RTFS and learn :) ביום חמישי, 30 בספטמבר 2004, 23:57, כתבת: > On Thursday 30 September 2004 23:31, Shaul Karl wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:43:14PM +0200, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I have been playing with the FS, and I wanted to duplicate an > > > installation. I formatted some device as ext3, mounted it, and copied > > > into it kernel, bash, and some other goodies. > > > > Are you sure you didn't miss something essential? > > > > > I fixed the target /etc/fstab and added the corresponding entry into my > > > grub menu, and the system did not boot caliming that "could'nt mout > > > bucause of unsupported features". > > > > > > A google session lead me to the conclusion that I needed to format the > > > device with the sparse_super option (and I can do this probably with > > > tunefs). > > > > > > The man is not very helpfull, does anyone have more info about this > > > option? > > > > Just wondering. I hope this is not too dumb. > > How did you create the new fs? Do you use initrd? Are you sure the > > old initrd should do with the newer installation? How far can you get > > in the boot process? What distro is it? > > I wanted to add you your questions and ask: Did you add a boot flag to the > partition ? :) > > Cheers, > > Ido -- diego, kde-il translation team, http://www.kde.org/il Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
