Re: Kernel Panic | boot | Unable to mount root fs | Reiser FS
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On Friday 01 November 2002 9:29 pm, Seneca wrote:
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> Reiser and EXT3 are compiled as modules with the Debian kernel that I
> have here (2.4.19-586tsc). Your rootfs cannot be compiled as a module.
> For your system to boot, you need to use a different kernel, or set your
> root partition to a filesystem with compiled in support (such as EXT2).
This is not so. The installation of a debian kernel when you have a rootfs
which needs a module for the root filesystem type is to create an initrd
image (uses mkinitrd from the initrd-tools package).
The kernel boots and loads the initrd image as a ramdisk. The scripts that
are then run (/linuxrc and /sbin/init) mount the module (from a copy on this
ram disk) and then switch to it as a root.
- --
Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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