Re: Why kernel 2.5.58 only mounts / (not home etc)

[Alessandro Suardi <ALESSANDRO.SUARDI@oracle.com>]

Andrew Morton wrote:

> Max Valdez <maxvaldez@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm having a problem with 2.5.58, when I boot I get / mounted, but not
> > the other entries on fstab, but if I mount them manually they run ok.
> > All ext3.
> > 
> > Is anybody having the same problem ?
> > mount-2.11u, e2fsprogs-1.27-4mdk
> > on MDK 9.0.
> > 
> Your ext3 filesystem is being built as a module, so you are dependent upon
> correct initrd setup to be able to mount the other filesystems.  If those
> filesystems were not cleanly shut down, ext2 will not be able to mount them.
> Or something like that.  Try setting CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y.

As I reported in the same thread as the breakage of modules in 2.5.59,
 module autoloading doesn't work for me since 2.5.58. Using Rusty's
 module-init-tools 0.9.8 or 0.9.9-pre. Same utils work flawlessly under
 2.4.21-pre3.

I can't run PPP, mount iso9660 CDs, run IrDA - anything modular needs
 manual modprobing in both 2.5.58 and 2.5.59 + Kai's fix.

--alessandro