mount: error 6 mounting ext3

[an0nym0us]

After succesfully installing mandrake 10 community on an external usb2 box (with an ibm 80gb ide hard disk) I tried rebooting and I received the following error:

mount: error 6 mounting ext3
pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed:2
Remounting defs at correct place if necessary
Mounted defs on /dev
Freeing unused kerbel memory: 272k freed
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel

The motherboard bios supports booting from usb. Can anyone help?

[fingal]

I did a bit of a Google search as I did not personally know the answer to this. It could be that the ext3 file system type is not compiled directly into your kernel and is compiled as a kernel module instead. Just an idea.

[Nerderello]

do you see a message stating that something like ext3.o has been loaded? This is the ext3 module.


have fun
Nerderello

[wumpus]

I've hit the same problem, but I know I compiled ext3 into my kernel for 2.6.5. Did anyone ever figure this out?

My / and /boot are on two different drives (hdb3, hdb1) do I need to account for this in my grub config?
Thanks,