Re: kernel panic & ext2 filesystem

[Jeff Largent <jlargent@imagelinks.com>]

Luca,
   If you use initrd, its' filesystem is ext2.

Jeff

Thomas Steudten wrote:
> What is the exact kernel output?
> What looks your /etc/fstab like?
> 
> Luca Ferrari wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> I'm still fighting against kernel 2.6.4. Now I found a strange 
>> behavior, that cannot explain to myself. I've got all my partitions 
>> formatted with reiserfs, and in particular:
>>
>> luca@lucaSassuolo:~> mount
>> /dev/hda2 on / type reiserfs (rw)
>>
>> that means root partition /dev/hda2 is reiserfs. Now I've unchecked 
>> ext2 and ext3 support in the filesystem options, leaving support for 
>> reiserfs directly in the kernel (i.e., not as module):
>>
>> lucaSassuolo:/usr/src/linux # grep REISER .config
>> CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y
>> # CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is not set
>> CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO=y
>>
>> but at the reboot I got a kernel panic, since it was unable to mount 
>> /dev/hda2 as root. I've re-checked the support (not as module) for 
>> ext2 and ext3 and the system starts.
>> Why should I support ext2,3 if all my partitions are reiserfs? Can 
>> anybody explain me this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Luca
>>
> 

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Jeff Largent                   ImageLinks, Inc.