On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Neal Becker<ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > drago01 wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Neal Becker<ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Greg wrote: >>> >>>> On 13/06/2009 6:30 PM, Bob Gustafson wrote: >>>>> As I recall, I think F11 is set up to use only ext3 on /boot. >>>>> Something about anaconda or the kernel not accepting ext4 - yet. Check >>>>> the documentation on this point. >>>> it was Grub, didnt have enough time to put the patch into it >>>> >>> >>> It's not /boot. I used a separate /boot ext3 partition. It's not a grub >>> issue. Problem seems to be that mkinitrd did not add ext4 support. >> >> It does not have to: >> >> CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y >> >> ext4 is not built as a module but built into the kernel, so mkinitrd >> does not have to do anything here. >> > Then I'm completely baffled. I could boot off the dvd in rescue mode, and > it mounted OK. Booting off the hard disk started the kernel, then said it > couldn't mount root because the filesystem used unsupported features. > > The first time I did an F10->F11 upgrade. It worked, but did not migrate to > ext4, so I used tunefs to turn on extents. As soon as I did that, it would > not mount. > > Then I did a clean re-install, requesting ext4. It did exactly the same > thing again. OK, I managed to reproduce this the problem seems not to be the presens of the kernel module but something in the initramfs trys to mount with -t ext3 (rebuilding the initrd fixes that because it picks up whatever is in fstab). -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
