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Hi, Since upgrading to 2.4.14 with the ext3 patch, I've been getting the following on bootup: VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. change_root: old root has d_count=5 Trying to unmount old root ... invalidate: busy buffer invalidate: busy buffer invalidate: busy buffer invalidate: busy buffer invalidate: busy buffer okay Is the invalidate busy buffer bit anything to worry about? -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, ho...

So, I'm trying to boot using PXE + NFS root filesystem, to boot a kernel that can reimage machines. This has been quite successful for me, until just recently where I ran into a motherboard that had a broadcom ethernet chipset - the broadcom driver is binary only. I can boot a kernel using PXE and load the broadcom driver using a custom initrd, but don't know how to then NFS mount the root

...load the ext3 module in the initrd ? RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 300k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Loading jbd module Journalled Block Device driver loaded Loading ext3 module VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. <--- ?? not ext3 ? change_root: old root has d_count=2 Trying to unmount old root ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 224k freed Adding Swap: 385520k swap-space (priority -1) -- Fab

...ut with ro ***** dmesg shows: -:/ # dmesg Linux version 2.4.10-4GB (root@-) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)) #1 Fri Jan 4 09:06:27 EST 2002 --cut--- Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=306 BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz mem=393152K --cut-- VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. change_root: old root has d_count=2 Trying to unmount old root ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 124k freed Adding Swap: 128480k swap-space (priority -1) kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.9, 5 Sep 2001 on ide0(3,9), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered dat...

...rocessor ANSI SCSI revision: 02 SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 71132960 [34732 MB] [34.7 GB] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 > autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. change_root: old root has d_count=1 Trying to unmount old root ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 76k freed Adding Swap: 530104k swap-space (priority -1) usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xd0089000, IRQ 11 usb.c: new USB bus registered,...