Somebody in the thread at some point said: > don't know if this is relevant but on a working system, /dev/hda2 is > mounted as type 'ext3' > > on the **'d system when i run the mount /dev/hda2 / it mounts as type > 'ext2' - only mention this as i found it from yesterday's googling well then change the line in /etc/fstab from ext3 to ext2. If it really doesn't have journal (it is old enough it can be ext2 easily) I guess mounting or the remounting rw as ext3 can fail needlessly. /dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults 1 1 -Andy
