Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:36:31 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: possible partition corruption |
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Thomas Molina <tmolina@cox.net> wrote: > > I have run into an apparent anomaly while compiling/testing 2.5.59-bk. My > normal mode of operation is to do a daily bk pull to get the latest csets > and do a compile/boot run. After yesterday's I started seeing problems on > reboot. During the reboot I would get the OK booting the kernel followed > by a system freeze. After a forced reboot into a stock RedHat 8.0 2.4 > kernel I would see the system misidentify my boot partiton as an ext2 > partition and the following messages would appear: >
Everything you describe is consistent with a kernel which does not have ext3 compiled into it.
> EXT2-fs: ide0(3,8): couldn't mount because of unsupported optional feature > (4). > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:08 >
That is an ext3 filesystem in the "needs journal recovery" state. ext2 cannot mount that until either fsck or the ext3 kernel driver has run recovery.
grep EXT3 .config ??
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