Re: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 unable to mount root
On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 14:43:07 -0700, Justin Guerin <jguerin@cso.atmel.com> wrote:
> > > > But I don't want to compile the kernel. What I don't understand is,
> > > > why the package I downloaded from debian sarge, causes that error? Is
> > > > it really because of the file system driver not compiled into the
> > > > kernel? I thought that packages from sarge should be common enough so
> > > > that user can just download them and use it.
> > > >
> This error might be happening because Knoppix is not Debian. Last time I
> did a Knoppix hard disk install, it used XFS. XFS is provided as a file
> system driver module in some kernels (I'm pretty sure Sarge has it), but
> you have to make sure that you add it to the initial ram disk in order to
> boot properly.
>
> Stock kernels don't compile XFS into the kernel because they want to keep
> the kernel lean, and it's not explicitly required to have your file system
> driver compiled in statically in order to use it. Stock kernels are all
> about flexibility, so everything is compiled as a module. It's just that
> the file system module is harder to use than the rest.
>
> In any case, I could be wrong, if your file system isn't XFS. What
> does /etc/fstab say? Also, are those modules in the initial ram disk?
I use ext3 for all my files partition.
My /etc/fstab is:
# filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass
/dev/hda7 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda9 /var ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda10 /tmp ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda11 /home ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy autofs defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
I've tried one suggestion found from googling, to put ext2 after ext3.
something like:
/dev/hda7 / ext3,ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
but, that did not solve the problem also.
help, anybody?
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