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

Robin Bowes robin-gmane at robinbowes.com
Thu Dec 2 18:48:00 UTC 2004


Terry Polzin wrote:
> On Thursday 02 December 2004 12:54, Fred Skrotzki wrote:
> 
> 
>>Also I need to get used to the changes as I've jumped from RH 8 up (current
>>box) to FC3 so attempting to understand all the changes.
> 
> 
> RH8  ==> FC3 that's not a jump, that's a quantum leap in some ways.
> 
> I've several machines running SMP, but I've to this point always made upgrades 
> with every version.  Also I'm trying to recall...  when was ext3 introduced?
> 
> Can you do a fresh install on this or identical hardware?   Review the install 
> logs for something strange happening (mkinitrd), maybe you just need to 
> rebuild the initrd image.

I can confirm the same problem.

kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.667 (stock FC3) and kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 
(latest update) won't boot on my SMP system with root on /dev/md0.

I've just installed kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 and it boots fine, although 
obviously with only one processor.

R.




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