Re: Converting a *live* Fedora box to Debian
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:11:44PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-08 15:08:20 +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine <frankie@debian.org>
> wrote in message <[🔎] 20050208140820.GH20521@ba.issia.cnr.it>:
> > On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 04:42:07AM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> > In respect with suggested takeover I found a couple of problems with
> > FC3, the very first is that Fedora mkfs.ext3 seems badly compatible with
> > debian. The fresh system refuses to start and ask for a more
> > recent version of fsck to manage unknown 'extensions'. Then the
> > system panics, because the rootfs cannot be mounted. You can
>
> Sounds like the fs wasn't umounted properly and the Debian kernel didn't
> have ext3 support compiled in (but ext2 instead). If the fs has data in
> it's journal, an incompatibility flag will be set (thus ext2 won't "see"
> the inconsistent state that an ext3fs driver of fsck could fix
> properly).
>
The fs was properly umounted and fsck.ext3 used under FC without results,
if I did remember correctly. And of course the debian initrd had ext3
among its add-on modules. I had no occasion to investigate more anyway.
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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