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russ loroville wrote:
>
> I've noticed that my BL2.02 linux hard drive partition 
> is not mountable by BL1.8 ramdisk. 

It's a kernel problem.  You need a 2.0.39 (or newer) kernel
to mount the BL2 partition.  So, if you boot the BL1.8 ramdisk
with the zimage from BL2, it should work (except for the 
modules).  I think Chris is going to use a 2.0.39 kernel for
the next version of BL1, so that problem should disappear.

> Is it because one is 32-bit and the other 16-bit? 

No it's because sparse-super is the current default for ext2 
filesystems.  The older kernels (2.0.38 and below) don't
understand sparse-super.  

> I was able to mount the partiton when it was occupied by 
> bl1.8, but since reformating and fresh installing BL2.02 
> I can't mount/read it.

When I installed BL2 on my system, I ran mke2fs from BL1.  
So that partition is still mountable from BL1.

Cheers,
Steven