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On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Andy Wallace wrote:
> >From the error message, it's an ext3 filesystem on an IDE hard disk, so
> there
> shouldn't be any need for an initrd to get it working (e.g. like there would
> if it was
> on scsi disks under hardware raid).
>
> There are two possible explanations: either he's made a mistake in grub.conf
> (e.g. root=/dev/hda3 when / is on /dev/hda5). Unlikely as it's pretty easy
> to copy
> the original entry. Or, ext2/ext3 support have been compiled as modules
> rather
> than compiled statically into the kernel. An easy mistake to make for
> someone
> compiling their first kernel.
Red Hat, by default, compile ext3 support as a module, and load it from the
initrd. So if he followed RH's example, he *would* need to build an initrd.
> Regards,
> Andy Wallace
Best Regards,
Alex.
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