root filesystem

[jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov]

Hi Igor,
In case noone has replied to you yet, ext3 is definitely an option in 
2.4.17.  Rebuild 2.4.17 and make sure you include ext3.  

      Good Luck,
       Jim Wantz
On Thu, 14 Mar 
2002, Janina Sajka wrote:

> 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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