Kernel Panic - Slackware 10.2 - kernel 2.6.13 & 14 - mkinitrd for ext3 and reiserfs

[kpiq]

Folks,

After clean compiles and install of kernels 2.6.13 and 2.6.14, including filesystems ext3 and reiserfs as modules I keep getting kernel panics. To compile I'm running the standard Slackware 10.2 distro, kernel 2.4.31. I've used mkinitrd 1.0.1 just as recommended
mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.14 -m jbd:ext3 -f ext3 -r /dev/hda1
and included the
initrd="/boot/initrd.gz"
statement in lilo, then run lilo.

What's wrong?

Pedro

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[juvestar15]

I was always told to compile resierfs/ext3 into the kernel and not as modules. If you have your boot/root partition as reiserfs/ext3 then I think you MUST compile into the kernel.

[Krendoshazin]

I was always told to compile resierfs/ext3 into the kernel and not as modules. If you have your boot/root partition as reiserfs/ext3 then I think you MUST compile into the kernel.

It's usually custom to compile the filesystem drivers into the kernel, but in the case that the filesystem driver is a module then you'll need an initrd image, this is only needed in cases like having a raid setup or as stated before, having the filesystem driver as a module.
If you don't have raid, and you compiled the filesystem driver into the kernel (which there's no reason not to) then the need for an initrd image is practically non-existant.

[juvestar15]

I was always told to compile resierfs/ext3 into the kernel and not as modules. If you have your boot/root partition as reiserfs/ext3 then I think you MUST compile into the kernel.

It's usually custom to compile the filesystem drivers into the kernel, but in the case that the filesystem driver is a module then you'll need an initrd image, this is only needed in cases like having a raid setup or as stated before, having the filesystem driver as a module.
If you don't have raid, and you compiled the filesystem driver into the kernel (which there's no reason not to) then the need for an initrd image is practically non-existant.

Thanks for clearing it up, I had no idea about the reasoning behind it.

[littledrop]

Nice explaination. I was looking for it.

[kern]

I've never needed an initrd , but I should really learn how to create one still