On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:58:51AM -0800, Wes Gray wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:39:08PM -0500, Mojo B. Nichols wrote:
> > I run with / as reiserfs 2.20 no problem.  I think you need to enable
> > reiserfs in the kernel, and, I believe it can't be a module either.
> 
> The problem is not with 2.4.20. 19 and 20 work fine, 21, 22, and 23 don't.
> 
> And yes, I have
> 
> CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y
> 
> in my config file.  I used make oldconfig to upgrade.  The error is that
> I get something like "failed to mount root partition" on bootup.  It
> then mounts readonly OK, but lots of other stuff fails after that.
> No doubt this is only a problem for certain people, but there are
> others.  Maybe things work if you use genkernel.  I did everything
> manually using vanilla-sources.
> 

Same problem here. I had to comment out rootfs checking in checkrootfs
during bootup since I had no old kernel to use. The problem probably
lies with reiserfs tool and not the kernel.

Christian.

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