Booting ancient kernels on Ubuntu 9.10

Luis R. Rodriguez mcgrof at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 21:24:27 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:17 AM,  <Darxus at chaosreigns.com> wrote:
> Your photo says the root filesystem failed to mount, but doesn't say why.
>
> You probably have a ext4 root filesystem with extents,

No, I am using ext3 on purpose to use older kernels. I only have one
ext3 partition.

> which I believe is
> the default for 9.10.  And extents are not backward compatible with /
> mountable as ext3, and it looks like you don't have ext4 compiled in.

Not it.

  Luis




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