ext3 compiled-in vs module in FC4

[Tim Taranov]

I thougt so too, howevever double, triple checking everything wasn't helping. 

Then I found some threads somewhere on google about the same problem
and they all were coming having ext3 compiled-in. When I did this -
the boot issue went away.

On 5/23/05, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 03:33:33PM -0400, Tim Taranov wrote:
>  > Hi -
>  >
>  > I was wondering why FC4 has ext3 as a kernel module rather than having
>  > it  compiled into the kernel?
>  >
>  > The reason I'm asking is because I encountered an issue with booting
>  > FC4 from a raid volume with ext3 compiled as a module (the default
>  > configuration) - the kernel would panic after not being able to mount
>  > /. After I rebuilt the kernel to have the ext3 compiled-into the
>  > kernel, the booting problem went away (my /boot and / are ext3-based,
>  > running off a h/w raid controller based volume).
>  >
>  > I was using the default FC4 test 3 at the time - I haven't tried it
>  > with the latest kernel, but I suspect the results may be the same.
> 
> If your initrd is made correctly, it shouldn't matter which way
> its built.
> 
>                Dave
> 
>