Ext3 users - Jan 2002 - problem mounting root as ext3 on init

I have kernel 2.4.16 with ext3 compiled (not as a module), with redhat 7.1,
and downloaded lilo 22.1 from util-linux 2.11n but still,
on init the root fs is mounted initially as ext2 as read-only,
afterwards it is unmounted and mounted again as read-write ext3.
this causes problems upon unclean shutdown where I have to fsck it just like
ext2.
does anyone know this problem ?

Hi,

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 09:52:02AM +0200, Oded Kedem
wrote:
> 
> I have kernel 2.4.16 with ext3 compiled (not as a module), with redhat 7.1,
> and downloaded lilo 22.1 from util-linux 2.11n but still,
> on init the root fs is mounted initially as ext2 as read-only,
> afterwards it is unmounted and mounted again as read-write ext3.
> this causes problems upon unclean shutdown where I have to fsck it just
like
> ext2.
> does anyone know this problem ?
Could you give a bit more info?  What are the boot messages regarding
mounting the root filesystem, for example?  What does /proc/mounts
show for root?  Do you have an updated e2fsprogs running?

Cheers,
 Stephen