I have an Supemicro 370DDE machine with 4 40GB hardrives. The Chipset on the mobo is the Apollo Pro 266. I have applied the Reiser patch to the 2.2.19pre17 kernel. The options have appeared for Reiser in make xconfig, and they're selected. The kernel has re-compiled fine.
I also have Mandrake 8 installed. Mandrake sees my reiser filesystems ok, and they were in fact created using Mandrake. When I try mounting a reiser file system using potato, I get the following: >>> tbird2:~# mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda10 /spare >>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda10, >>> or too many mounted file systems I wondered if there was some subtle difference between the way Mandrake made reiser file systems and the reiserfsprogs-3.x.0j utils that I installed on potato. So I deleted the parition, and used mkreiserfs under potato. The partition is created with no errors, and I reboot. reiserfsck thinks it's fine too. But I cannot mount the file system. Thanks to nate for giving me a few things to check. Such as ensuring that the partition is type 83: >>> tbird2:~# fdisk -l /dev/hda >>> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 5005 cylinders >>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes >>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >>> /dev/hda1 * 1 781 6273351 b Win95 FAT32 >>> /dev/hda2 782 5005 33929280 85 Linux extended >>> /dev/hda5 782 817 289138+ 82 Linux swap >>> /dev/hda6 818 1425 4883728+ 83 Linux >>> /dev/hda7 1426 2130 5662881 83 Linux >>> /dev/hda8 2131 3194 8546548+ 83 Linux >>> /dev/hda9 3195 4292 8819653+ 83 Linux >>> /dev/hda10 4293 5005 5727141 83 Linux The kernel has reiser support: >>> tbird2:/proc# cat filesystems >>> ext2 >>> reiserfs >>> umsdos >>> msdos >>> vfat >>> nodev proc >>> nodev nfs >>> nodev smbfs >>> iso9660 >>> nodev autofs >>> nodev devpts There are some error messages in the syslog, which suggest all is not well; along the lines of: >>>Nov 29 11:04:30 tbird2 kernel: reiserfs_read_super: can't find a reiserfs >>>filesystem on dev 16:41. >>>Nov 29 11:04:30 tbird2 kernel: reiserfs_read_super: try to find super block >>>in old location >>>Nov 29 11:04:30 tbird2 kernel: reiserfs_read_super: can't find a reiserfs >>>filesystem on dev 16:41. I've run out of ideas. Any suggestions welcome. Dougie
