Re: Installing a custom kernel and ext3

2003-03-12 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10 Mar 2003 17:48:21 +0100, Molnar Peter wrote: > What do you need the ramdisk for? Software-RAID and SCSI, unless you build these into the kernel, too. - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+b9od0iMVcrivHF

Re: Installing a custom kernel and ext3

2003-03-10 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 March 2003 10:58 am, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > p.s. of course, i could always just "RTFM". right, michael? :-P > > Do we need you for anything, Mr.Day? *lol* No, _we_ decided we didn't need him for anything. Didn't we? Hey I stay

Re: Installing a custom kernel and ext3

2003-03-10 Thread Bret Hughes
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 14:38, Jack Bowling wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:24:04PM -0500, Me wrote: > > Ah! Perhaps it's the CONFIG_JBD=y. It works! Happy day!!! > > > > Thank you to everyone for your help. With that out of the way, do most of > > you guys use loadable module support? I've

Re: Installing a custom kernel and ext3

2003-03-10 Thread Jack Bowling
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:24:04PM -0500, Me wrote: > Ah! Perhaps it's the CONFIG_JBD=y. It works! Happy day!!! > > Thank you to everyone for your help. With that out of the way, do most of > you guys use loadable module support? I've avoided it because it seemed > like an unneeded security r

Re: Installing a custom kernel and ext3

2003-03-10 Thread Kleiner Hampel
Am Mon, 2003-03-10 um 16.31 schrieb Robert P. J. Day: > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > When I build ext3 not as a module (CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y, CONFIG_JBD=y), > > I can boot the kernel fine without a RAM-disk. "LABEL=" has never > > worked for me in GRUB boot menu. But it works in

Re: Installing a custom kernel and ext3

2003-03-10 Thread Molnar Peter
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 16:31, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > one of the things i'm pretty sure i recall is that you can build > ext3 support as a module, then totally *forget* to build a ramdisk > and everything will still boot properly since (again, from memory), > the root FS will first be mounted as

Re: Installing a custom kernel and ext3

2003-03-10 Thread Me
Ah! Perhaps it's the CONFIG_JBD=y. It works! Happy day!!! Thank you to everyone for your help. With that out of the way, do most of you guys use loadable module support? I've avoided it because it seemed like an unneeded security risk. What does everyone think? > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSA

Re: Installing a custom kernel and ext3

2003-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Bret Hughes wrote: > On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 09:31, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i *know* there was something regarding building ext3 support either > > into the kernel directly or leaving it as a module that affected > > whether or not you could use "LABEL=" entries in /etc/fs

Re: Installing a custom kernel and ext3

2003-03-10 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:31:47 -0500 (EST), Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i *know* there was something regarding building ext3 support either > into the kernel directly or leaving it as a module that affected > whether or not you could use "LABEL=" entries

Re: Installing a custom kernel and ext3

2003-03-10 Thread Me
I forgot to mention that I am using Grub. Also I was using the /dev/hda1 instead of the LABEL... > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:41:12 -0500 (EST), "Robert P. J. Day" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> It also seems that you MUST use a RAM disk to load the ext3 >>> module. That was the only way I could

Re: Installing a custom kernel and ext3

2003-03-10 Thread Me
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Me wrote: > >> Okay, this really isn't a problem. It's just an annoyance. >> >> I had the hardest time installing a custom built kernel on my Redhat >> 8.0 box. After some research I found the culprit to be ext3. It >> seems that ext3 support HAS to be built as a module an

Re: Installing a custom kernel and ext3

2003-03-10 Thread Bret Hughes
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 09:31, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > When I build ext3 not as a module (CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y, CONFIG_JBD=y), > > I can boot the kernel fine without a RAM-disk. "LABEL=" has never > > worked for me in GRUB boot menu. But it works in f

Re: Installing a custom kernel and ext3

2003-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Michael Schwendt wrote: > When I build ext3 not as a module (CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y, CONFIG_JBD=y), > I can boot the kernel fine without a RAM-disk. "LABEL=" has never > worked for me in GRUB boot menu. But it works in fstab in both > cases. Whether or not ext3 is a module, doesn't

Re: Installing a custom kernel and ext3

2003-03-10 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:41:12 -0500 (EST), Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Me wrote: ^^ not! > > Okay, this really isn't a problem. It's just an annoyance. > > > > I had the hardest time i

Re: Installing a custom kernel and ext3

2003-03-10 Thread Giulio Orsero
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:41:12 -0500 (EST), "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It also seems that you MUST use a RAM disk to load the ext3 >> module. That was the only way I could get it to work. > >also not true. what kind of errors were you getting? *note* >that, as i recall, ther

Re: Installing a custom kernel and ext3

2003-03-10 Thread Kleiner Hampel
Am Mon, 2003-03-10 um 14.41 schrieb Robert P. J. Day: > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Me wrote: > > > Okay, this really isn't a problem. It's just an annoyance. > > > > I had the hardest time installing a custom built kernel on my Redhat 8.0 > > box. After some research I found the culprit to be ext3.

Re: Installing a custom kernel and ext3

2003-03-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Me wrote: > Okay, this really isn't a problem. It's just an annoyance. > > I had the hardest time installing a custom built kernel on my Redhat 8.0 > box. After some research I found the culprit to be ext3. It seems that > ext3 support HAS to be built as a module and not b

Installing a custom kernel and ext3

2003-03-10 Thread Me
Okay, this really isn't a problem. It's just an annoyance. I had the hardest time installing a custom built kernel on my Redhat 8.0 box. After some research I found the culprit to be ext3. It seems that ext3 support HAS to be built as a module and not be built directly into the kernel. It also