iphitus Posted December 26, 2003 Report Share Posted December 26, 2003 that's interesting...I don't do any of the above and do not have any probs......weird....distro specific prob? I know debian has debian specific kernel/scripts but I never got in to them and never compiled a kernel in debian either. Weird. bvc, what do you mean? A kernel will not be able to mount the root filesystem, if the root filesystem's type isnt compiled into the kernel, so if oyu use EXT3 oyu must compile it into the kernel. Same for reiser, xfs, jfs.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shvetal_Patel Posted December 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 iphitus, It does not matter whether or not you have ext3 compiled into the kernel so long as you have it as a module. Which is why you have initrd. When you have the root partition in some non standard place you want ram disk support which will load the kernel and respective modules which will then allow you to mount whatever type of filesystem you want, provided you have them compiled as modules. Right now I am writing this message from such a system. I have an IDE and a SCSI drive. In my bios I have chosen to boot from my ide drive. So the bootloader resides there. The SCSI drive has my / partition and others. And I have it all working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 Ok, my bad, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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