Hi Alan, ok, it's good to hear that it would be possible to use ReiserFS out of the box. Still I am wondering which problem I did hit then?
In the posting of Seneca he quoted the explanation regarding the lilo error messages. As far as I understood there is a serious problem with my hard disk, which is unlikely as the machine was running the same way (i.e. booting from SCSI and using ReiserFS) with SuSE. I was unsure what to do with the type of partition when fdisking my hd. I left the type as "eightysomething - linux" as I haven't found ReiserFS as a vaild type. Btw. Is it possible to boot from a ReiserFS partition? Mariano On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 00:10, Alan Chandler wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 01 November 2002 9:29 pm, Seneca wrote: > > > > > Reiser and EXT3 are compiled as modules with the Debian kernel that I > > have here (2.4.19-586tsc). Your rootfs cannot be compiled as a module. > > For your system to boot, you need to use a different kernel, or set your > > root partition to a filesystem with compiled in support (such as EXT2). > > This is not so. The installation of a debian kernel when you have a rootfs > which needs a module for the root filesystem type is to create an initrd > image (uses mkinitrd from the initrd-tools package). > > The kernel boots and loads the initrd image as a ramdisk. The scripts that > are then run (/linuxrc and /sbin/init) mount the module (from a copy on this > ram disk) and then switch to it as a root. > > - -- > Alan Chandler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE9wwnVuFHxcV2FFoIRAmS5AKCOxTxr0Kx0niuDnwsNwcLbS9GhlgCfWcrC > 3UczO3/tNa3VmNPNROovB3s= > =r3n2 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
