Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes: > > Hello Benno Schulenberg, > > > > GRUB cannot read files from a tail-packed Reiser filesystem. > > > > Huh? How is this machine able to boot then? Here /boot isn't a > > separate partition, but just a subdir of /, which is mounted > > without notail, and has been so for years. > > As Volker said, maybe things have changed recently, but the requirement > was always to use notail when running reiserfs on /boot. that's why I use > ext3 on my root partition (no /boot partition), but I'd be happy to > switch it to reiser. > > The latest baselayout-1 still has this warning in fstab > # NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
Well all of this is interesting. I just booted off of the 2006.0 minimal cd for x86 (the 2006.1 does not boot the system) and here's the fstab I have been using: /dev/hda1 /boot reiserfs notail,defaults 1 2 /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hda3 / reiserfs noatime 0 0 I reemerge grub (sys-boot/grub-0.97-r3) just for grins and then: grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab grub-install --no-floppy /dev/hda <snip> Installation finished. No error reported. This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map. Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'. (hd0) /dev/hda <end/snip> then: exit cd umount /mnt/gentoo/boot /mnt/gentoo/dev /mnt/gentoo/proc /mnt/gentoo reboot;exit exit It should boot, or give a kernel error... I get the same errors as before. I wanted to re emerge grub again to see if that is the problem. (it did not fix the problem). So now I am going to try Florian's early suggestion, later on tonight. If I have notail in the fstab, and that is not sufficient, then I have ask when was I support to use 'notail' following the command syntax in the handbook? James James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
