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From: Thomas Steudten <alpha@steudten.com>
Subject: Re: kernel panic & ext2 filesystem
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:28:42 +0100
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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
> 

-- 
Tom

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