On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:52:30 +0530 (IST), "Ritesh Raj Sarraf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > when building the kernel with ext3 (probably your root fs) as a module, > prefer building an initrd based kernel. > > rrs > > On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Jemshad O K wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:39:34 +0530 > > From: Jemshad O K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: Linux India Help <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: [LIH](no subject) > > > > Hi Everybody, > > > > I tried compiling the 2.6 series of kernels and everytime, the machine > > wont boot if I used ext3 as module. My root filesystem is ext3 and > > works fine with module in rh9 with 2.4.25 kernel. The problem is there > > with all the 2.6 series kernels ( 2.6.0 and 2.6.3 tried ). Is there > > anything else that I should enable. > > > > The booting works fine if ext3 is compiled into kernel. > > > > Another peculiar problem I found with this series of kernels is that, > > even if I modify fstab to mount file systems as ext2 only, then also, it > > complains "cant mount root file system ( ext3 ) and all. From where does > > it take the ext3 if I am not using it in fstab. > > > > Does the kernel read the partition information for this purpose ?. If so, > > how should I force it to mount as ext2 only ? > > > > TIA, > > > > -- > > Jemshad
I have initrd too. I prefer to use make intall as the last step of kernel recompilation which does all those things :-) -- Jemshad @(-_-)@ "I know Karate, Kung Fu, and 47 other dangerous words" -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
