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On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 00:31:42 +0530 "Jemshad O K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had already posted my problem once in this list. Its like this: Got any success with the problem ? > > I compiled the new kernel, with ext3 as modules. I have the / filesystem > also ext3 - but I do have initrd. Now, the real problem is that, I > changed the fstab entries and made all partitions from ext3 to ext2. Then > also, the kernel was trying to mount the / file system as ext3 and it > failed at that point. :-\ You define ext2 in your fstab. You complain that fstab is not being read by the kernel that is why it's mounting the root partition still as ext3. hmmm! Doesn't the kernel, to read the fstab file, require to mount the root fs ? If I'm not wrong, fstab resides on the root partition. > > So my questions are: > > 1) Why is the kernel not loading the ext3 module when required Read /usr/src/linux-$VERSION/Documentation/initrd.txt > 2) Why is it trying to mount filesystems as ext3 even when I specified it > as ext2 I hope there might be other errors, how have you enabled your IDE/SCSI disk support. How did you create your initrd image ? Did you miss any option while selecting the options in config/menuconfig/xconfig ? - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT (www.researchut.com) Happy GNU/Linux user since 1998 - ------ FORTUNE ! Jesus died for your sins. Make it worth his time. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAY0/14Rhi6gTxMLwRAo8hAJ9rba9wCv2ZpgSMJHSUYIFNOBlLCACeJkmh fEHQLh8zoIDfU+9sCtjWa8M= =p1ME -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- 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
