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
PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 02:09:52 +0200 (IST) 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

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-30 Thread Dan Kaspi
... But my aim , as I said in my question , was to know exactly whether ext3 is a builtin or loaded a modules. Thnks, Dan From: Yedidyah Bar-David [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dan Kaspi [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:12

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

ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-29 Thread Dan Kaspi
was build into this kernel image or as a module. (It seems to me that looking under /lib/modules/version/fs/ext3 does not indicate it truly ; an ext3.ko could be put there afterwards) While the practical solution can be configure it as a module or as part of the image and the build it, it interests me if I

Re: ext3 in the kernel image or as a module

2004-11-29 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
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 /proc/config.gz. You might look there. I want to know if the ext3 was build into this kernel image or as a module. (It seems to me that looking under /lib/modules

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

Re: kernel-image

2003-08-19 Thread Shaul Karl
into all of their conf files, and since the resault is a pretty long file, its pointless to send it to the list. a based my assumption on the fact that i have an entry in lilo.conf to the old kernel image as well, and its loading with no problem, using the same configuration file. May I suggest

Re: kernel-image

2003-08-19 Thread Amir Tal
that looks ok to you ? debian adds a LOT of inline little howto's into all of their conf files, and since the resault is a pretty long file, its pointless to send it to the list. a based my assumption on the fact that i have an entry in lilo.conf to the old kernel image as well, and its loading

Re: kernel-image

2003-08-18 Thread Amir Tal
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 01:30, guy keren wrote: On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Amir Tal wrote: debian sid, dell inspiron 4000 laptop. installed kernel-image-2.6.0-test2-1 with apt-get. installation went fine. took a look at lilo.conf after installing, looks ok to me. when booting the new kernel i

Re: kernel-image

2003-08-17 Thread guy keren
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Amir Tal wrote: debian sid, dell inspiron 4000 laptop. installed kernel-image-2.6.0-test2-1 with apt-get. installation went fine. took a look at lilo.conf after installing, looks ok to me. when booting the new kernel i get a kernel panic, and a message that tells meto