Re: [tlug] EXT3 journal not found

[Michael Doughty <Doughty_Michael@example.com>]

>> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:34:20 +0900, Jonathan Byrne wrote:
> Uva Coder (uvacoder@example.com) wrote:
> 
> > As crazy as it may seem, it appears that the kernel in your boot 
> > floppy doesn't support EXT3.
> 
> But it worked before :-)
> 
> It looks like it may be a bad disk.  I booted a Linuxcare rescue
> disk with the intention of hacking fstab to mount everything as
> ext2, but it's response to fdisk /dev/hda was "Can't read hda."
> It had no problem with /dev/hdc, though, which is an identical
> disk purchased at the same time as hda.

A lack of support in the kernel seems an extremely unlikely source, 
as any kernel that did not support the filesystem would not know what
ext3 was in the first place.  You should have seen something like
"ERROR: ext3 not supported by kernel".  

  But your error was (sorry, I purged my tlug box so I can't quote) 
something like: "EXT3: Error jounal not found".  This indicates that 
the kernel knew exactly what kind of filesystem it was, but couldn't 
find the file containing the journaling information or just couldn't 
read the filesystem at all.  ie Hardware or filesystem issue, not kernel.

Michael