On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 18:46 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
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> On Saturday 01 January 2005 06:31 pm, Alan Dayley wrote:
> > On Saturday 01 January 2005 06:20 pm, Alan Dayley wrote:
> > > Kernel panic on boot.  Somone is still looking for ext3 on that
> > > partition. It suggests using an init= option on the kernel.
> > >
> > > I'll go looking for an answer here but if anyone has a quick tip, that'd
> > > be great.
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> > Duh, edit fstab to be ext2, right?  Booting rescue CD now so I can do
> > that...
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> Just editing fstab is not a complete solution.  This is the root partition and 
> so it needs changes involving initrd.
> (http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/ext2toext3.htm seems to be a good 
> reference on switching back and forth between ext2 and ext3.)
> 
> This is out of the scope of my experience and I'd have been most of the way 
> done with a new install by now, if I had just done it.  I think that is what 
> I will now do.
> 
> I am learning lots, though!
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I would suppose that if you wanted expedient, you could have simply put
the swap in a file in an existing partition since the swap memory need
not be in it's own partition.

man swapon

I sometimes make a decision that the learning is worth the time. Much as
I am doing with installing openldap from source this weekend.

Craig

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