On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote: > > On Apr 07, Wieger Opmeer illuminated : > > Interesting side note: it's possible to upgrade such an old version to > > ext3fs (using tune2fs -j) and the 2.0.35 milo will still happily boot from > > it. I'm running a 2.4.18 kernel booting from a ext3 root filesystem on a > > XL266 system, works like a charm.. > > > that is because when they are clean, ext2 and ext3 are for all purposes > identical. what might be an interesting check, is if the system will boot > off the ext3 partition, if it has not been cleanly unmounted (and hence not > looking like an ext2 fs again)
Been there, done that. Somebody managed to trip a ground leakage circuit (aardlekschakelaar in dutch) in this building yesterday. After resetting that switch my alpha came up without a hitch. A whole lot quicker than with ext2 too. My guess is that the ext2-reading-code in milo has been stripped of most of the compatibillity checks: if it looks remotely like ext2, try to read it. As long as kjournald has commited all of your new kernel to disk and out of the journal I think milo will be able to boot. ~~ Wieger -- Livin' on the edge... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
