On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Tener, Stuart B., IT3 , USNR-R wrote: > Mr. Ivanov, et al.: > > I tried your suggestion but it did not work, I got the following > error when it booted up: > . > . > . > <normal console boot up messages> > . > . > . > Freeing initrd memory: 119k freed > EXT2-fs: unrecognizable mount option data > Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs 03:06 > > Some facts about my configuration: > > (a) I use grub, not lilo > > (b) I use an initrd which loads ext3 module and boots the root > partition as an ext3 partition perfectly when the > "rootflags=data=journal" is not supplied to the grub "kernel" command > line > > (b) When using the initrd image and the default ext3 mode all > boots up as it ought to > Are you sure that your partition is ext3. It seems that the kernel does't recogize this partition as ext3. How did you made this partition ext3 - did you format it with "mke2fs -j /dev/hda6" or use "tune2fs -j /dev/hda6" to make it. -------------- Cheers Ivan
