[TriLUG] confusion regarding need for initrd during boot

[rpjday]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Daniel T. Chen wrote:

> 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.

that was my next suspicion -- that ext2 support would work. but
what do you mean by checking my /etc/fstab?  all of the lines in
there list my filesystems as ext3.  so shouldn't it still be
looking for ext3 support somewhere?

rday