Mr. Ivanov: I do not remember, I think when I did a fresh install of RH Linux 7.3 and I choose EXT3, but I may have done the tunefs I really do not remember. The point is, I would imagine either way it ought to work the same, no? I will make sure that both the /etc/fstab and rootflags are in force next I try to boot up that way. Thanks for your help thus far. Very Respectfully, Stuart Blake Tener, IT3 (E-4), USNR-R, N3GWG Beverly Hills, California VTU 1904G (Volunteer Training Unit) stuart@bh90210.net west coast: (310)-358-0202 P.O. Box 16043, Beverly Hills, CA 90209-2043 east coast: (215)-338-6005 P.O. Box 45859, Philadelphia, PA 19149-5859 Telecopier: (419)-715-6073 fax to email gateway via www.efax.com (it's free!) JOIN THE US NAVY RESERVE, SERVE YOUR COUNTRY, AND BENEFIT FROM IT ALL. Sunday, July 07, 2002 11:44 PM -----Original Message----- From: Ivan Ivanov [mailto:ivandi@vamo.orbitel.bg] Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 11:50 PM To: Tener, Stuart B., IT3 , USNR-R Cc: ext3-users@redhat.com Subject: RE: Changing journaling mode on root / loop-aes 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
