On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Craig Dickson wrote: > begin Andreas Dilger quotation: > > > On Feb 18, 2002 11:33 -0500, Joe Krahn wrote: > > > Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > > > > > Did you compile ext3 as a module, and/or you are using an initrd? That > > > > is the most common cause for mounting the root as ext2. > > > > > > This is on a plain, redhat-compiled kernel, which has ext3 as a > > > module. No initrd, using GRUB bootloader. > > > > Well, ext3 can't mount a root filesystem if it isn't available at the > > time the root filesystem is mounted. Either you need to load the ext3 > > module from an initrd, or compile it into the kernel. While the on-disk > > layout of ext2 and ext3 are basically the same, the kernel drivers are > > separate, so it is not possible to remount an ext2-mounted filesystem > > with the ext3 driver later on. > > Let me see if I have this straight: > > 1. Red Hat 7.2 uses ext3 as its default filesystem for new installations. > (Do they also offer to convert ext2 --> ext3 when upgrading?) > > 2. Red Hat 7.2's standard vendor-supplied kernel images have ext3 as a > module, and no initrd (or the initrd does not include ext3). > > Therefore: > > 3. Red Hat 7.2, without user customization of the kernel or initrd, will > _never_ mount its root partition as ext3. > > Have I got that right? It seems rather lame. They DO provide a initrd and configure it to run at boot if you goto ext3 during install. The problem was that he had manually compiled a newer kernel with the module compiled in (thus not requiring initrd anymore) and then installed another kernel rpm afterwards (need to manually create/add initrd). He didnt recreate the initrd for the newest kernel installed via rpm. -- ===================================================================== Mohammad A. Haque http://www.haque.net/ mhaque@haque.net "Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Developer/Project Lead Don't drink and derive." --Unknown http://www.themes.org/ batmanppc@themes.org =====================================================================
