From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [204.233.198.50] (helo=linserver.complex) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16lhT1-0003Vf-00 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:29:15 -0500 Received: (from gnowak1@localhost) by linserver.complex (8.11.4/8.10.2) id g2F2Srr03600 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 20:28:53 -0600 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 20:28:53 -0600 From: Gregory Nowak To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: root filesystem Message-ID: <20020314202853.A3592@uic.edu> References: <000b01c1cb9c$60a2c020$01213e18@OEMCOMPUTER> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from janina@afb.net on Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 04:44:42PM -0500 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 2.4.17 has an ext3 configuration option in it by default. Greg On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 04:44:42PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote: > Hi, Igor: > > Are you using Red Hat? If you first configured and partitioned your system > with a recent Red Hat you are probably using ext3 file system. This is > good, but I don't know if it's supported in 2.4.17 by default. > > Someone here will tell us, I'm sure. > > I offer this up, because I've run into this a few times. > > PS: You can always move down to ext2fs using tune2fs -- read the man page > for tune2fs to learn its commands -- but that would be too bad, because > ext3 seems pretty helpful. If this is the issue, there's probably a patch > for 2.4.17, though that will mean recompiling. > On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Igor > Gueths wrote: > > > Hi listers. I built a 2.4.17 kernel because this is what I happen to have, and rebooted the machine. It came up talking and it probed hardware successfully. However, it can't mount the root filesystem and it terminates with a kernel panic: fs: Unable to mount root filesystem. I checked system.map to make sure it said root=/dev/hda2 because this is my root partition, and it is also in lilo.conf as root=/dev/hda2. Here's basiclly what it looks like: > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17 > > label=Kernel1 > > read-only > > root=/dev/hda2 > > alias=1 > > > > It also says root=/dev/hda2 closer to the top of the lilo.conf. What could I be missing? I alias back to the kernel with 2, and it boots fine. Any help would be great! Thanks in advance. > > > > Igor > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup