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Re: EXT3 questions



Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org> wrote:

> I just did a mkinitrd to create a new initrd, changed my lilo.conf, ran
> lilo and rebooted, but nothing changed. The ext3 module is loaded but
> unused and /proc/mounts says /dev/root is mounted as ext2.


>Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
>
>If you are using the -386 flavour then this is a known problem.  The only
>way around it is to use pivot_root.

Huh? I had no difficulty getting /proc/mounts to say it is mounting ext3.

mkinitrd is far as I understand will look into /etc/fstab to look for what
modules one wants to load. I would suggest that the user perhaps should
not load any deliberately in /etc/mkinitrd/modules....strange

-walter





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