-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 December 2003 13:32, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: Hi Leonard - Thanks for your reply :-) > I don't think the second stage will use the modules from the initrd. > > 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. I confess in the initrd I had copied them into /lib "to make things simple". After your email I improved this to keep the same /lib/modules/<ver>/... structure in the initrd, and I ran depmod with -a -b <fake root> on both the initrd and the root filesystem at generation time, and the modules are now to be found in the same place in the main root filesystem and the initrd. (Depmod is done in /etc/rc.sysinit but not until after the fsck that is blowing up). In the meanwhile while trying things in /etc/fstab I managed to get the /etc/rc.sysinit to fail to do the fsck properly, this means that the error is skipped temporarily, and I find to my delight I do get through to a login prompt and then into bash. So I am close. Unfortunately even with the depmods and the improved directory structure for the modules in the initrd, the kernel still insists on pulling in the ext3 root fs as ext2. The messages I am seeing just before init starts up are EXT2-fs warning (device nbd(43,0)): ext2_read_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) Trying to move the old root into /initrd ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 120k freed Having ext3 is important, because the root filesystem is on another machine using the Network Block Device, it can be expected to experience rough treatment. > The module should be loaded on demand. What prompts the kernel to try to load the ext3 modules? If I try rootfstype=ext3 the kernel seems to understand this to mean that the initrd is ext3 (it is in fact ext2 since that's how the Fedora one is formatted). Since this is all based on the Fedora initrd, I must be missing something or doing something (else) stupid, because Fedora has no trouble coming up on ext3 on my laptop HDD here :-( - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/0ebHjKeDCxMJCTIRAgruAJ4j5nwpM3Z80qWCTXQmvN0jLlxqmwCfYrG4 92PSM2MN48SBrm5KfcjTQtQ= =CRDR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
