From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Largent Subject: Re: kernel panic & ext2 filesystem Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 09:13:36 -0500 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <405EF490.4040901@imagelinks.com> References: <200403221420.56585.fluca1978@virgilio.it> <405EEA0A.8040400@steudten.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <405EEA0A.8040400@steudten.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: fluca1978@virgilio.it Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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 >> > -- Jeff Largent ImageLinks, Inc.