[gentoo-user] Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

[Peter <pete4abw@comcast.net>]

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:15:14 -0800, Grant wrote:

> Hello, I'm trying to upgrade my server to the latest hardened-sources
> kernel.  I'm trying to mount my /dev/hda1 partition to /boot but I'm
> getting the error:
> 
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'
> 
> It's true that I don't have ext2 support compiled into my kernel, but I
> never have.  My /etc/fstab looks like this:
> 
> /dev/hda1     /boot     ext3     noauto,noatime     1 2
> 
should it be ext2 above?

> Does anyone know what's going on here?
> 
do you have an initrd loading? Without some kernel support, it can't load
at all? Check your lilo or grub configuration and make sure you have some
kind of initrd with ext2 loading.

> - Grant

Probably something really dumb! Inasmuch as it _had_ been working!

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