Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:26:45 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Collapse ext2 and 3 please |
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On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, David van Hoose wrote:
> yeah.. Really. Here's what I do. > > I have ext3 partitions, so I decided if they are different partitions, > then I can compile my kernel with ext2 as a module and ext3 builtin. > So I do it and reboot. Panic! Reason? Cannot find filesystem for the > root partition. > The error is in the kernel itself either way. Pick your reason. > 1) ext3 is identified as ext2 on bootup. > 2) There is no fallback to ext3 if ext2 is not found. > > I'll check this again to be sure on a 2.6 kernel later today, but as far > as 2.4 is concerned my kernel panics. > > Regards, > David > > PS. Shut up with the cheap insults. I have empirical evidence supporting > my claim. Meaning there exists a bug somewhere.
If you make the root file-system, or any part of it, a module, then the module must be loaded before the kernel attempts to mount the root file-system. This is normally done using `initrd`. You need to find out how to reconfigure `initrd` to handle your changes. This varies between vendors and has nothing to do with the kernel. In fact, when you see the message about being unable to mount the root file-system, it means that the kernel was running fine but ran out of things to do on startup because somebody, probably you, failed to provide an available file-system to mount so it could continue the startup by executing `init`.
Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.26 on an i686 machine (5570.56 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
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