Ext3 as root filesystem?

Leonard den Ottolander leonardjo at hetnet.nl
Sat Dec 6 13:32:13 UTC 2003


Hi Andy,

> At the end of the initrd script, Linux wants to mount the root filesystem
> again, okay, BUT the Redhat kernel does not have ext3 compiled in, its as a
> module.  This shouldn't matter because the initrd has loaded the jbd and
> ext3 modules. Yet despite this the kernel is unable to mount the same ext3
> filesystem that the initrd was, apparently because ext3 was not compiled in
> and is 'not on its list'.

 I don't think the second stage will use the modules from the initrd.

 The module should be loaded on demand. Are you sure it is available under 
/lib/modules/<version>/kernel/fs/? You might want to run depmod -a, 
although that should be called by the init scripts as well.

Bye,
Leonard.





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