On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 09:26:33AM +0100, Padraig Brady mentioned:
> ext2 can mount an ext3 partition, but there are
> probably small changes required (to the BIOS)
Most likely. But, seeing as I've flashed the thing with the most
up-to-date BIOS I could get (with all the screaming 'experimental' stuff
Next trick is to format /boot as ext2, and try again.

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From ilug-admin@linux.ie  Fri Aug  9 15:21:22 2002

> On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 11:51:18AM -0600, Scott Wunsch mentioned:
>>> I've installed Redhat 7.3 on a raq3's disk. But fscked if I can get the
>>>kernel in /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 to boot. It's insisting pulling the
>>>kernel from ... somewhere else. The old cobalt kernel.
>>The Cobalt systems have some neat firmware boot code that will read the
>>ext2 filesystem and find the kernel itself... if you put it exactly where
>  Alas, I've been following that howto, and it doesn't seem to work. It
> could be because i'm using ext3 for the rootfs though.
ext2 can mount an ext3 partition, but there are
probably small changes required (to the BIOS)