Re: Collapse ext2 and 3 please

[David van Hoose <david.vanhoose@comcast.net>]

All ext3 partitions are labeled as ext3. It still panics.

Regards,
David

Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 12:50, David van Hoose wrote:
> 
>>yeah.. Really. Here's what I do.
>>
>>I have ext3 partitions, so I decided if they are different partitions, 
>>then I can compile my kernel with ext2 as a module and ext3 builtin.
>>So I do it and reboot. Panic! Reason? Cannot find filesystem for the 
>>root partition.
>>The error is in the kernel itself either way. Pick your reason.
>>1) ext3 is identified as ext2 on bootup.
>>2) There is no fallback to ext3 if ext2 is not found.
>>
>>I'll check this again to be sure on a 2.6 kernel later today, but as far 
>>as 2.4 is concerned my kernel panics.
> 
> 
> Have a look in /etc/fstab, does it say ext3 or ext2 for your root
> partition?  If it says ext2 then of course it panics and Christoph was
> right.  (-;
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 	Anton