Hey there Tan, I cant answer all your questions but I just wished to add in the fact that I did the exact same thing as you but with the 2.4.17 tree and everything works fine. I just suggest trying it out. -Dan Erickson- -ColdOneKnight@rogers.com- On Tue, 7 May 2002, Tan Wei Chong wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have a RedHat 7.2 system at home. > I downloaded a clean linux-2.4.18 from www.kernel.org and compile it with built in ext3 and jbd support. > > Weird things happen upon boot time, the system seems to attempt to load something related to /lib/ext3.o and kernel panic happened. > > I try recompile the kernel with ext3 and jbd support as modules and everything is fine. > > I checked out /etc/modules.conf and there is no trace of ext3 at all. > > My question is why is the weird phenomenon happening ? Which script or config files determine what modules to get loaded at boot time ? > > Thanx > > Wei Chong. > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/