mounting root filesystem issue ?

[Andy Green]

Somebody in the thread at some point said:

> don't know if this is relevant but on a working system, /dev/hda2 is
> mounted as type 'ext3'
> 
> on the **'d system when i run the mount /dev/hda2 / it mounts as type
> 'ext2' - only mention this as i found it from yesterday's googling

well then change the line in /etc/fstab from ext3 to ext2.  If it really
doesn't have journal (it is old enough it can be ext2 easily) I guess
mounting or the remounting rw as ext3 can fail needlessly.

/dev/hda2         /             ext3      defaults      1  1

-Andy