grub and ext3 fs

[Collins Richey]

Does grub work at all with ext3 fs?

I have a multiboot (Win98 and several linux partitions) system with
grub 0.90.  Everything boots normally  using lilo.

I built a grub boot floppy (ext2fs fs on the floppy) with the standard
boot and grub directories, did the install to fd0 to make it bootable,
and added a menu.lst converted from my lilo.conf.  The grub floppy
will boot windows successfully, but any of my linux boots proceed
normally through booting the kernel and starting all daemons (no error
messages), but I never get a login prompt.  The system does respond to
ctl-alt-delete, however.

Here's a brief extract from the lilo.conf and the menu.lst files. 
Windows is on hdc (first ide disk); there is a second ide disk hdd.

The linux partitions are /dev/hdc8 (/boot) and /dev/hdc9 (/) and
/dev/hdd7 (/boot) and /dev/hdd8 (/).  Both have a common /dev/hdc7
(/home) partition.  All linux partitions are ext3 with meta-data
journaling only and fsck turned off (tune2fs -c 0 -i 0).  hda and hdb
are cdroms.

boot=/dev/hdc
install=/boot/boot.b
menu-scheme=wb:wm:wb:wb
lba32
prompt
timeout=50
default=win98
# current on hdd7/8
image=/boot/bzImage-2.4.17-pre8
        label=R6K17-8
        read-only
        root=/dev/hdd8
        append="hda=ide-scsi hdb-ide-scsi"
# new on hdc7/8/9
image=/mnt/hdc9/boot/bzImage-2.4.17-pre8
        label=N6K17-8
        read-only
        root=/dev/hdc9
        append="hda=ide-scsi hdb-ide-scsi"
other=/dev/hdc1
        label=win98
        table=/dev/hdc

db-ide-scsi"



timeout 10
default 0
title Win98
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
title R6K17-8
root=(hd1,6)
kernel=/bzImage-2.4.17-pre8
hda=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi root=/dev/hdd8
title N6K17-8
root=(hd0,7)
kernel=/bzImage-2.4.17-pre8
hda=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi ro root=/dev/hdc9

Any clues?

-- 
Collins Richey
Denver Area - 12DEC2001 - WWTLRD?
gentoo_rc6 k2.4.17-pre8+ext3+xfce+sylpheed+galeon