Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:15:19 -0400 | From | David van Hoose <> | Subject | Re: Collapse ext2 and 3 please |
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Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 07:50:42AM -0400, 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. > > > Doesn't make sense. The kernel just tries all registered filesystems > for the rootfs until one clames it. It means you either: > > - don't actually have ext3 in the kernel or > - the filesystems actually is ext2 and not ext3 > > Try calling debugfs /dev/$ROOTDEVICE and then typing features, what does it > say?
[root@bahamut root]# /sbin/debugfs /dev/sda2 debugfs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) debugfs: features Filesystem features: has_journal filetype needs_recovery sparse_super debugfs: quit [root@bahamut root]#
Is that sufficient for you?
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