Originally Posted by kevkim55

Did you compile ext3 as a module ? If yes, you need to recompile your kernel with ext3 integrated into your kernel.

In case you have ext3 compiled as a module, you'll have to include ext3 module in the initrd image and make sure that init script in the initrd image loads the ext3 module before it attempts to mount the root filesystem.

Let me know if this was helpful !

Originally Posted by kevkim55

OK, let's go thru' it all once again !

You have an ide disk and linux is installed on /dev/hda1 and you've got your menu.lst updated as follows:


The partition /dev/hda1 is your root partition and has an ext3 filesystem. You've integrated ext3 support into your kernel. If you've done this all, it should boot just fine.

There's one thing you'll have to check and make certain. Check your kernel configuration and see that you've IDE support integrated into the kernel and not as a module. This includes all the required IDE/ATA core, generic etc. support including the driver for your IDE controller.

If you've all this and still can't get it working then, I've run out of explanations. Maybe, you should try downgrading to 2.6.22 or so.