On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 04:08:30 +0100 Olivier Blin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > BTW, test9-2mdk seems to be broken here - it has trouble loading the > > ext3.o module early in the boot process and since all my partitions > > are ext3 it can't mount anything and stops booting. Anyone else > > seeing this, or did I break something? > > Right, the ext3 module can't be loaded from the initrd image because > of unresolved symbols (journal_* functions IIRC). I don't really know > how to track this error, this occurs very early. > I've noticed that the jbd module wasn't included in the initrd, > isn't it needed by the ext3 module ? Some more info: insmod ext3.ko exits with -1 Unknown symbol in module >From syslog (thanks to wacky on IRC) : ext3: Unknown symbol journal_force_commit ext3: Unknown symbol journal_dirty_data ext3: Unknown symbol journal_init_dev ext3: Unknown symbol journal_dirty_metadata ext3: Unknown symbol journal_forget ext3: Unknown symbol journal_wipe ext3: Unknown symbol journal_blocks_per_page ext3: Unknown symbol journal_errno ext3: Unknown symbol journal_extend ext3: Unknown symbol journal_invalidatepage ext3: Unknown symbol journal_create ext3: Unknown symbol journal_unlock_updates ext3: Unknown symbol journal_revoke ext3: Unknown symbol journal_lock_updates ext3: Unknown symbol journal_start_commit ext3: Unknown symbol journal_flush ext3: Unknown symbol journal_load ext3: Unknown symbol journal_try_to_free_buffers ext3: Unknown symbol journal_update_format ext3: Unknown symbol journal_get_write_access ext3: Unknown symbol journal_get_undo_access ext3: Unknown symbol journal_get_create_access ext3: Unknown symbol journal_destroy ext3: Unknown symbol journal_enable_debug ext3: Unknown symbol journal_clear_err ext3: Unknown symbol journal_stop ext3: Unknown symbol journal_init_inode ext3: Unknown symbol journal_start ext3: Unknown symbol log_wait_commit ext3: Unknown symbol journal_release_buffer ext3: Unknown symbol journal_check_available_features ext3: Unknown symbol journal_abort ext3: Unknown symbol journal_restart These symbols are defined in jbd module. > But even with jdb in initrd, ext3 can't be loaded at boot. Errm, there's a mistake in my /linuxrc, I'll retry right now :) -- Olivier Blin
