On May 21, 2009 00:37 -0400, Matt LaPlante wrote: > It looks likes the magic touch was to add rootfstype=ext4 to the > kernel command line. Prior to this the ext4 only kernel wasn't > finding the disk, but with it attached it now appears to boot > successfully. Maybe worth adding a note to the wiki? This means that your initrd has "ext3" as the root filesystem type in /etc/fstab or similar. If the filesystem type is explicitly given as "ext3" then the ext4 driver will not try to mount it. I suppose it might be reasonable to have a config option that adds the "ext3" and "ext2" filesystem types to the ext4 driver for cases like this where CONFIG_EXT2 and CONFIG_EXT3 (and module equivalents) are disabled. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
