Initrd did it! I was not using initrd. I generated the relevant initrd.img and
added the line to my grub.conf configuration, and the problem is solved.
System crashes are now easily recovered.
The only mystery is, why RedHat has ext3fs compiled as a module?
Lot of thanks,
Zvi.
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001 arjan@fenrus.demon.nl wrote:
> In article <Pine.GSO.4.33.0111072302460.12525-100000@leeor.math.technion.ac.il> you wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>
> > /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0
>
> ext2!
>
> > /dev/hda6 /home ext3 rw 0 0
>
> > How do fix the situation at this stage? I am using Redhat 7.2 with kernel
> > 2.4.9-13
>
> Be sure to use the initrd as used by default in when you install the kernel.
> Are you using lilo ? If so add
>
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.9-13.img
>
> to the lilo.conf in the relevant kernel section.
>
> Greetings,
> Arjan van de Ven
>
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Dr. Zvi Har'El mailto:rl@math.technion.ac.il Department of Mathematics
tel:+972-54-227607 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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Thursday, 22 Heshvan 5762, 8 November 2001, 9:03AM
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