FC3T2 - 598 & 603 (SMP) kernels abort in boot with ext3 failed to load message

[Anne & Lynn Wheeler]

On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 01:16, fedora-test-list-request at redhat.com wrote:

> From: Andrew <cmkrnl at speakeasy.net>
> Subject: Re: FC3T2 - 598 & 603 kernel fail bootFC3T2 - 598 & 603 kernel fail boot - was "FC3T1 - 598 &
> 	603 kernel fail boot"
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> Hi,
> 
> I don't know for sure what is the matter, but I would recommend you 
> rebuild your initrd the ext3 module has to be loaded from the initial 
> ram disk since its needed before the root file system is mounted
> 
> boot to the 541 kernel and as root
> cd /boot
> mv initrd-2.6.8-1.603.img initrd-2.6.8-1.603.bad.img
> mkinitrd initrd-2.6.8-1.603.img 2.6.8-1.603
> 
> and
> 
> mv initrd-2.6.8-1.598.img initrd-2.6.8-1.598.bad.img
> mkinitrd initrd-2.6.8-1.598.img 2.6.8-1.598
> 
> And see how that works.
> 
> No problem with 603 or 598 here.

didn't help ... additional note ... this is smp machine with
smp kernels,  598-smp, 603-smp, etc ... not simply 598 & 603.


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