Re: Kernel Panic | boot | Unable to mount root fs | Reiser FS

[Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>]

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On Friday 01 November 2002 9:29 pm, Seneca wrote:

>
> 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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