Re: booting problems after installing lm-sensors kernel modules from sid / can't mount root fs

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 09:45:17 +1000, 
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote in message 
<[🔎] E1A0rPh-000811-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>:

> Manuel Bilderbeek <manuel@msxnet.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> So, I took my older (Woody-beta) installation cd and booted with
> >> "rescue root=/dev/hda6". Also, this didn't work out: again a kernel
> >> panic, because it can't mount the root fs... This time there was
> >> some error about "unsupported optional features".
> > 
> > Any idea about this then?
> 
> It means that your rescue floppy does not support ext3.  ext3
> filesystems requiring a journal recovery cannot be mounted as ext2.

..I lost you here, _I_ mounted my ext3 /var as ext2 upon a dead journal.

..if OP has a problem getting his box going with ext3 because of cooked 
journals, he should try ext2 read-only first, to see WTF is going on.

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