Ah! Perhaps it's the CONFIG_JBD=y. It works! Happy day!!! Thank you to everyone for your help. With that out of the way, do most of you guys use loadable module support? I've avoided it because it seemed like an unneeded security risk. What does everyone think?
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:41:12 -0500 (EST), Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Me wrote: > ^^ > not! > >> > Okay, this really isn't a problem. It's just an annoyance. >> > >> > I had the hardest time installing a custom built kernel on my Redhat >> 8.0 box. After some research I found the culprit to be ext3. It >> seems that ext3 support HAS to be built as a module and not be built >> directly into the kernel. >> >> not true. >> >> > It also seems that you MUST use a RAM disk to load the ext3 >> > module. That was the only way I could get it to work. >> >> also not true. what kind of errors were you getting? *note* >> that, as i recall, there was an issue regarding whether or not >> you could use "LABEL=" entries in /etc/fstab when using ext3. >> i can't remember the exact issue -- can anyone clarify this? > > When I build ext3 not as a module (CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y, CONFIG_JBD=y), I > can boot the kernel fine without a RAM-disk. "LABEL=" has never > worked for me in GRUB boot menu. But it works in fstab in both > cases. Whether or not ext3 is a module, doesn't have an influence on > partition labels. > > - -- > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+bK5j0iMVcrivHFQRAhWFAJ9PLoSFlVd6XSzw0btOfO2cJq+8kACcD4jp > nch9+mYm9WKVJaQo4VRM5+E= > =AN8Q > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
