Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266248AbUFYMF7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:05:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266717AbUFYMF7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:05:59 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.85]:27086 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266248AbUFYMFu (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:05:50 -0400 Message-ID: <40DC1513.2070706@comcast.net> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:05:39 -0400 From: David van Hoose User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anton Altaparmakov CC: Christoph Hellwig , Helge Hafting , John Richard Moser , lkml Subject: Re: Collapse ext2 and 3 please References: <40DB605D.6000409@comcast.net> <40DBED77.6090704@hist.no> <40DC0CE0.6040509@comcast.net> <20040625114105.GA28892@infradead.org> <40DC1192.7030006@comcast.net> <1088165028.16286.59.camel@imp.csi.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <1088165028.16286.59.camel@imp.csi.cam.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1152 Lines: 35 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/