> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:56:25AM -0500, Ben Logan wrote: >> Hello, >> >> If I'm not mistaken, the Redhat kernels do provide ext3 support, but >> only as a module. Since you want your root filesystem to be mounted >> ext3, you'll need ext3 support compiled into the kernel (or perhaps >> you can get around it with ramdisks or something, but I wouldn't know >> how). If you have any other filesystems (for example, /boot or >> /home), you can try converting them. That's what I did--/boot, /home, >> and /usr/share (I think) were all successfully mounted as ext3, but / >> wasn't. >> > The above is correct that the 2.4.9-12 kernel has ext3 as a > module. To use it on the / partition you need to have a initrd > file created by a cammand like: > mkinitrd --with=ext3 initrd-2.4.9-12.img 2.4.9-12 > ------------------------------------------- > Aaron Konstam
Thanks again! Well - yes that worked fine - once I worked out that lilo doesn't HAVE to use an initrd - my machine didn't have one coz it is IDE and no extra hardware requireing one (which I guess is pretty standard these days? Maybe RedHat should put a 1 line comment in the kernel upgrade doc for people as stupid as me not to notice I don't have a initrd line in my lilo.conf :-) Finally ... ext3 on / on 7.1 Now to update all the other machines so the next power fail doesn't cause the drama the last one did :-) -- -Cheers & Much Thanks -Andrew MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding! _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
