Missing ext3 on a 7.3 rebuild with 2.4.20-28.7

Taylor, ForrestX forrestx.taylor at intel.com
Fri Apr 9 20:49:14 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 13:31, Dallas L. Engelken wrote:
> I just rebuilt my redhat 7.3 CD's containing all the updates available,
> which includes the 2.4.20-28.7 kernels.  After I did that my kickstarts
> began failing with a "you don't have enough disk space error".  Digging
> into it deeper and running the install manually, I see that I no longer
> have the ext3 option on disk druid, and looking at /proc/filesystems
> from an ALT+F2 prompt, I see ext3 is no longer in there.
> 
> If I rebuild the CDs with 2.4.20-24 it works fine.  Any ideas where ext3
> would have went or how I get it back.   Is ext3 support missing in
> 2.4.20-28.7BOOT ??

The -28 kernel was too large to fit in the images.  Either stay with the
-24 kernel and install -28 in %post, or remove some modules in the
initrd images (like PCMCIA or SCSI) and make the initrd images larger.

Forrest





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