Hi Andy, > At the end of the initrd script, Linux wants to mount the root filesystem > again, okay, BUT the Redhat kernel does not have ext3 compiled in, its as a > module. This shouldn't matter because the initrd has loaded the jbd and > ext3 modules. Yet despite this the kernel is unable to mount the same ext3 > filesystem that the initrd was, apparently because ext3 was not compiled in > and is 'not on its list'. I don't think the second stage will use the modules from the initrd. The module should be loaded on demand. Are you sure it is available under /lib/modules/<version>/kernel/fs/? You might want to run depmod -a, although that should be called by the init scripts as well. Bye, Leonard.
