Re: root ext3 filesystem being mounted as ext2

2003-11-26 Thread Andrew Schulman
>> EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_read_super: mounting >> ext3 filesystem as ext2 >> > I remember that i had the same problem when using ext3fs as a module and > no initrd. Right, I had the same problem and solved it the same way, by building ext3 support into the kernel.  After all, if

Re: root ext3 filesystem being mounted as ext2

2003-11-25 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi, Thanks for this. I am familiar with initrd images but never understood their purpose. Now I do :) This indeed was the problem: apparently the kernel did not have ext3 compiled into it nor did this particular system have an initrd to load the ext3 module before mounting the root file system.

Re: root ext3 filesystem being mounted as ext2

2003-11-25 Thread Alexander Rink
On Monday 24 November 2003 21:44, Paul Yeatman wrote: > Hi, I have a problem I've never run into before with a system: the root > partition is undesirably and inexplicably being mounted as ext2 during > bootup. I'm using kernel 2.4.20-20.8 (sorry this happens to be a Red > Hat machine although I w