Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-30 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 12:08:50AM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Mon, 29 Nov: I have a bzImage. It was built with 2.6.* kernel. I do not know the configuarion ( More rpecisely :I'm not sure I have the .config file it was built with ).

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-30 Thread Dan Kaspi
Hello, Thanks for your answer and the link; it was really a very interesting lesson. First , there is also a non-compressed image file on the 2.6.* kernel I use. It resides, natuarally (?!) , in the compressed folder. (/arch/i386/boot/compressed) It is called vmlinux. Running nm -a vmlinux | egrep

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-30 Thread Dan Kaspi
Hello, Maybe it is more accurate to term the problem not so common instead of theoretical. Second, you suggested Look at /proc/filesystems. Do this right after boot ... Well , this as you said, shows filesystems supported at the moment, regardless of whether they are builtin or loaded as

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-30 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:19:43AM +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Last note - I really do not understand this trend of compiling the kernel with a modular ext3, while defaulting / to be ext3, therefore forcing you to have an initrd, started by RH7.2. Of course some hardware will require it

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-30 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:36:47AM +0200, Dan Kaspi wrote: Hello, Maybe it is more accurate to term the problem not so common instead of theoretical. Second, you suggested Look at /proc/filesystems. Do this right after boot Well , this as you said, shows filesystems supported at

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-30 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Mon, 29 Nov: I have a bzImage. It was built with 2.6.* kernel. I do not know the configuarion ( More rpecisely :I'm not sure I have the .config file it was built with ). 2.6 added the option to include this file in the

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-30 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:46:20AM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: I think you're thinking about it the wrong way. RH kernels require you to have an initrd if you want to use the default root=LABEL=XXX syntax in lilo/grub, since the work of identifying the root partition is done in in the

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-30 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Tue, 30 Nov: Last note - I really do not understand this trend of compiling the kernel with a modular ext3, while defaulting / to be ext3, therefore forcing you to have an initrd, started by RH7.2. Of course some hardware will require it anyway,

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-30 Thread guy keren
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Dan Kaspi wrote: Hello, Thanks for your answer and the link; it was really a very interesting lesson. [.. snip ..] So I ran dd like thus (I am not sure that I used the dd correctly as I don't use it frequently): First,I used skip=11 for 1 sector of boot sector and

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 06:26:33PM +0200, Dan Kaspi wrote: Hello, This is a question which may be less practical and more theoretical, I think it's very practical. ,but it interests me though: I have a bzImage. It was built with 2.6.* kernel. I do not know the configuarion ( More

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-29 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Mon, 29 Nov: I have a bzImage. It was built with 2.6.* kernel. I do not know the configuarion ( More rpecisely :I'm not sure I have the .config file it was built with ). 2.6 added the option to include this file in the kernel itself, as

RE: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-29 Thread Eran Levy
We can also look in the .config file. If we have m or y next to the EXT3_FS= options -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ira Abramov Sent: 30 2004 00:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module Quoting

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-29 Thread guy keren
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Dan Kaspi wrote: I have a bzImage. It was built with 2.6.* kernel. I do not know the configuarion ( More rpecisely :I'm not sure I have the .config file it was built with ). I want to know if the ext3 was build into this kernel image or as a module. question: on my old

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-29 Thread Oron Peled
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 00:08, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Mon, 29 Nov: I have a bzImage. It was built with 2.6.* kernel. I do not know the configuarion ( More rpecisely :I'm not sure I have the .config file it was built with ). 2.6