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I am running Slackware 10.1 on an IBM thinkpad x30. I decided to do a custom kernel compile (first time!) with the 2.6.10 kernel. Everything seems to have gone smoothly, accept that while linux is loading, I have an error like "ext3 not recognized." I remember selecting this for inclusion in the kernel compile. Any thoughts? Thanks.
1. You think you included ext3 support, but perhaps made a mistake and in fact didn't include it.
2. You included ext3 support, but did so as a module, and that module now lays on the root file system, which happens to be ext3.
The second possibility sounds like the most likely to me. The problem is that the kernel can't read the file system that the kernel module resides on, so it can't load the module.
But if the machine is booting, than this isn't the case. If you'r machine is booting successfully and just complaining about not recognizing ext3, the first possibility is more likely.
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