Ext3 users - Sep 2001 - converted ext2->ext3 root won't mount on boot as ext3

Kernel 2.4.8 on an Athlon 500.
e2fsprogs-1.23
ext3 compiled as a module.

I used "tune2fs" to make /boot and /home into ext3, and remounted them
OK.
(I am so amazed to see the system come right back without an lengthy
fsck on these two file systems after a power off!  Well done!)

I also used "tune2fs -j" on /, it created a /.journal file.  The
debugfs
features command shows that root has a journal; but, every boot has root
come up as:

   VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.

I created an initrd using mkinitrd; mkinitrd included jbd.o and ext3.o
as well as the scsi modules for my tape drive and CDROM.  (My disks are
all IDE.)  When booting with that initrd, jbd.o and then ext3.o load
just before the above VFS message.  "cat /proc/mounts" shows root is
still ext2.  I tried adding "rw" to the grub boot line; that caused
the boot to die in fsck being unable to check the root.

Please point me at the FAQ for this one?  Merci!

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Hi!

I was just wondering where i could find a patch for for example kernel
2.4.9..
I always downloaded redhat's rawhide kernel, but there has to be a patch
outthere that i can apply
to a clean fresh kernel, like 2.4.9 myself? Where is that?

Thanks in advance!

Bart Verwilst

On Sep 04, 2001  00:44 -0400, Ian! D. Allen [NCFreeNet]
wrote:
> Kernel 2.4.8 on an Athlon 500.
> e2fsprogs-1.23
> ext3 compiled as a module.
> 
> I created an initrd using mkinitrd; mkinitrd included jbd.o and ext3.o
> as well as the scsi modules for my tape drive and CDROM.  (My disks are
> all IDE.)  When booting with that initrd, jbd.o and then ext3.o load
> just before the above VFS message.  "cat /proc/mounts" shows root
is
> still ext2.  I tried adding "rw" to the grub boot line; that
caused
> the boot to die in fsck being unable to check the root.
You need to verify that the initrd tries to mount the root fs as ext3.
If it is leaving it up to the kernel/mount, then because ext3 is a module
it will be checked after ext2 (see order in /proc/filesystems).  You
need to explicitly give "mount -t ext3 <dev> /" to mount it.

Cheers, Andreas
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