I worked off a existing Redhat 9.0 install with a boot sector formatted as ext3. I also made my gentoo partition ext3. I created my kernel using 'genkernel all'. When I booted the first time, it was fine. However, I forgot the change the root password, so I had to do a hard shutdown. Due to hangups in the livecd on saving the random seed, I also had do this again. When I booted back into my gentoo install, I got a VFS error, saying the hard drive was not perfect ext2. Upon further reboots, I got a kernel panic stating the root partition was not correct reiserfs. After performing a e2fsck, I could boot back into gentoo and I found that ext3 was a module. This is an obvious problem for me, but in the docs, it says only if your boot partition is not ext2 or ext3 should you need to manually config genkernel's workings. I am recompiling my kernel now, but I did a 'genkernel --menuconfig all' and turned on ext3 support by default, as it was listed as a module in the menu, which I assume should not be so. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Expected Results: Compile ext3 into the kernel by default or instruct that a menuconfig is required in genkernel for ext3 users.
Fixed in 3.0.2f; please reopen this bug if you have any problems with it. Thanks!
