Yes, I see that now, just found a nice page explaining it. (http://www.luv.asn.au/overheads/linux-startup.html) So then it comes down to a problem with initrd not putting the ext3 module in the initial ramdisk? On Saturday, December 22, 2001, at 09:04 PM, Jeffrey Taylor wrote:
This is what initrd is for, a initial ramdisk with needed modules. See the SuSE Handbook for details.
Jeffrey
Quoting Gnu iBook 2
: Ok. I got my /boot partition to convert to ext3. The key was running the tune2fs -j /dev/hda1 command with the partition unmounted.
Various documents say that it does not matter if the partition is mounted or not, but that was not the case for me.
Next I wanted to convert / to ext3 as well. I can only conclude that it is not possible with a stock SuSE kernel. I need to build a fresh kernel. This is because SuSE built the kernel with ext3 as a module, and the system can only load the modules from a mounted partition, so it mounts / ext2 in order to get to the modules. I don't think it is possible to then go back and remount / as ext3.
On Friday, December 21, 2001, at 02:16 PM, Nadeem Hasan wrote:
Gnu iBook 2 wrote:
OK, I tried it with jbd module as well, but no go. I still get the message during bootup:
<3>ext3: No journal on filesystem on ide0(3,1)
How do i get a journal on ide0(3,1)?
I ran tune2fs -j on /dev/hda1
On Thursday, December 20, 2001, at 12:17 PM, Purple Shirt wrote:
you need jbd in conjunction with ext3 driver. go add it to mk_initrd and rerun script and reboot.
INITRD_MODULES="jbd ext3"
Make sure you have the journal created. In my case:
# tune2fs -l /dev/hde2 | grep features Filesystem features: has_journal filetype needs_recovery sparse_super
If the has_journal does not appear, create the journal. If it fails, try to remove the .journal file from the filesystem. So if you are trying this on a filesystem /dev/hda1 mounted as /usr...u would do:
# cd /usr; rm .journal; tune2fs -j /dev/hda1
if you don't find a .journal....try:
# cd /usr/; chattr -i .journal; rm .journal; tune2fs -j /dev/hda1
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