Re: RedHat 7.2 weird phenomenon

[Dan Erickson <coldoneknight@rogers.com>]

        Hey there Tan,

        I cant answer all your questions but I just wished to add in the
fact that I did the exact same thing as you but with the 2.4.17 tree and
everything works fine. I just suggest trying it out. 


-Dan Erickson-
-ColdOneKnight@rogers.com-

On Tue, 7 May 2002, Tan Wei Chong wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I have a RedHat 7.2 system at home.
> I downloaded a clean linux-2.4.18 from www.kernel.org and compile it with built in ext3 and jbd support.
> 
> Weird things happen upon boot time, the system seems to attempt to load something related to /lib/ext3.o and kernel panic happened.
> 
> I try recompile the kernel with ext3 and jbd support as modules and everything is fine.
> 
> I checked out /etc/modules.conf and there is no trace of ext3 at all.
> 
> My question is why is the weird phenomenon happening ? Which script or config files determine what modules to get loaded at boot time ?
> 
> Thanx
> 
> Wei Chong.
> 

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