-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 December 2003 14:25, Andy Green wrote: > 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. Another piece of information, after I come up in bash with my ext3 root filesystem mounted as ext2 by the init script, I did an lsmod: Module Size Used by Not tainted ext3 65092 0 (unused) jbd 47404 0 [ext3] via-rhine 14192 1 mii 3736 0 [via-rhine] nbd 15716 2 All of these modules were inserted by the initrd... ?8-( -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/0et/jKeDCxMJCTIRAmrdAJ4m6HXMpF3+4MHeKOrKea/RStixLgCfcomR Sh8wI2HHty8AGtcj3BHg5qw= =vnGb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----