root filesystem

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Igor:

Are you using Red Hat? If you first configured and partitioned your system 
with a recent Red Hat you are probably using ext3 file system. This is 
good, but I don't know if it's supported in 2.4.17 by default.

Someone here will tell us, I'm sure.

I offer this up, because I've run into this a few times. 

PS: You can always move down to ext2fs using tune2fs -- read the man page 
for tune2fs to learn its commands -- but that would be too bad, because 
ext3 seems pretty helpful. If this is the issue, there's probably a patch 
for 2.4.17, though that will mean recompiling.
 On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Igor 
Gueths wrote:

> Hi listers. I built a 2.4.17 kernel because this is what I happen to have, and rebooted the machine. It came up talking and it probed hardware successfully. However, it can't mount the root filesystem and it terminates with a kernel panic: fs: Unable to mount root filesystem. I checked system.map to make sure it said root=/dev/hda2 because this is my root partition, and it is also in lilo.conf as root=/dev/hda2. Here's basiclly what it looks like:
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17
> label=Kernel1
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda2
> alias=1
> 
> It also says root=/dev/hda2 closer to the top of the lilo.conf. What could I be missing? I alias back to the kernel with 2, and it boots fine. Any help would be great! Thanks in advance.
> 
> Igor
> 
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