[TriLUG] confusion regarding need for initrd during boot

[Daniel T. Chen]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, rpjday wrote:

[...]
>   so i explicitly deleted that initrd file from /boot, just in
> case the kernel was being clever and looking for it there anyway.
> still booted just fine.
> 
>   ok, so what's going on?  can ext3 filesystems be mounted
> even without an available ext3 module or built-in support for
> ext3 in the kernel?  what gives?

As long as the ext3 partition was cleanly unmounted, it can be mounted as
ext2. Check your /etc/fstab settings.

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