FC3 SMP builds do NOT contain ext3 drivers in the build!!!!

[Gustavo Seabra]

Fred Skrotzki wrote:

>I've even run up2date and using the latest 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 it still panics when booting.  Thanks to the lack of ext3 drivers being built in.
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>Not the greatest distro.  If you are lazy, in a hurry and let it automatically configure the drive(s)for you, it of course defaults to ext3.  Which then makes your build in FC3 under SMP USELESS..
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>Or does somebody have it working and know a trick to get around this.  I can of course select the non SMP build and it boots fine but then I'm wasting the second processor which we need.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Fred Skrotzki
>Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 5:49 PM
>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>Subject: FC3 ext3 and SMP kernel errors.
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>Hardware:  HP Lp2000r dual 1.0 Ghz procs, 1 Gig ram, Single 36 gig drive.
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>I just built a clean install (for the third time to be sure) on the above hardware. (FC2 runs perfectly on identical hardware).
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>Can anybody confirm this?
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>I'm going to rebuild again using ext2 to get by this problem.
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I don't know what's going on with your system, but I don't think the 
problem is what you mentioned. I run 2.6.9-1.681_FC3smp with ext3 
partitions with no problem.

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