I thougt so too, howevever double, triple checking everything wasn't helping. Then I found some threads somewhere on google about the same problem and they all were coming having ext3 compiled-in. When I did this - the boot issue went away. On 5/23/05, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 03:33:33PM -0400, Tim Taranov wrote: > > Hi - > > > > I was wondering why FC4 has ext3 as a kernel module rather than having > > it compiled into the kernel? > > > > The reason I'm asking is because I encountered an issue with booting > > FC4 from a raid volume with ext3 compiled as a module (the default > > configuration) - the kernel would panic after not being able to mount > > /. After I rebuilt the kernel to have the ext3 compiled-into the > > kernel, the booting problem went away (my /boot and / are ext3-based, > > running off a h/w raid controller based volume). > > > > I was using the default FC4 test 3 at the time - I haven't tried it > > with the latest kernel, but I suspect the results may be the same. > > If your initrd is made correctly, it shouldn't matter which way > its built. > > Dave > >