Re: Collapse ext2 and 3 please

[David van Hoose]

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

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