Finally a kernel that boots with initrd and ext3 as a module:
2.4.22.25mdk. Thanks, no noinitrd kernel option needed anymore!

On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 13:46, Stew Benedict wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Duncan wrote:
> 
> > Svante Signell posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > excerpted below,  on Thu, 06 Nov 2003 09:12:23 +0100:
> > 
> > > The long thread on 'kernel 23mdk panic' seems to be related to my problem.
> > > Has anyone made a summary of conclusions made so far? Which kernels are
> > > known to boot properly, with and without initrd?
> > 
> > I compile my own kernel from kernel.org sources, so haven't been following
> > this real closely, but AFAIK, any of the Mdk kernels work if ext3 support
> > is compiled directly into the kernel, rather than as a module.  I haven't
> > been following it closely enough to know which kernels work with ext3 as a
> > module. with or without user recompilation.
> > 
> > 
> 
> That's not the whole story:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] stew]$ /sbin/lsmod | tail -2
> ext3                   60048   2
> jbd                    39296   2 [ext3]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] stew]$ uname -r
> 2.4.22-23mdk
> 
> / is ext3, booting with an initrd 
> single disk, / is hda5, no /boot partition, devfsd=nomount (for LSB)
> 
> Works for some folks, not others.

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