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Run into a snag Mike.

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You are a little out of order. You should create the journal files before updating the kernel. The kernel I provided will always change '-t ext2' into '-t ext3' so you wouldn't be able to mount as ext2 with that kernel. Grab the stock kernel off mlord's site so you can get the drives mounted as ext2 and then do the journal step before going back to my kernel. Once you have the journal files created figure out what inode they are at with 'ls -i' and then go back to my kernel and mount the drives with the 'journal=<inode>' option.

-Mike