> AFAIK even 1.7.361 is able to mount any ext2/3 filesystem, however, it
I think ext2 can only mount *clean* ext3 filesystems, if there is journalling to apply, doesn't it set a bit that stops it? There may be a 'force' flag or something, but it is definitely best to use ext3 if it isn't clean. The 1.7.361 should be able to mount it if it is clean. > The problem is there are a lot of auto-detects happening here, any one > of them could be upsetting some piece of hardware and most of them say > nothing if they find nothing. One thing to try is pulling out spurious hardware, such as network cards and sound cards and such, and see if it will boot then, in case one of them is what is locking up on the probe. -Tom
