From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3BA00574.FC62E674@carolina.rr.com> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 21:01:40 -0400 From: Jason Edgecombe MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM References: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: stuart@bh90210.net Cc: linux-lvm@sistina.com hi, according to reiserfs's FAQ: http://www.reiserfs.org/faq.html#ReiserFS-as-root you need the notail option on the /boot partition. the fstab might look as follows: /dev/hda1 /boot reiserfs defaults,notail 0 0 /dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 0 0 if there isn't the word "notail" in the fourth column of your root fstab entry, then you ARE booting with tails. according the lilo changelog: ftp://brun.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo/CHANGES lilo has been able to boot from a reiserfs partition with tail support since version 21.6 (Oct. 1, 2000) *under an rpm-based distro such as redhat or mandrake, "rpm -qi lilo" should give you the version. (assuming you haven't downloaded lilo as a tarball and compiled it.) Both were last modified in August 2001, I don't know which to believe. For safety sake, I made my /boot ext2. Most recent computers (within the past two years) can boot from a partition after the 1024 boundary. I just like to make a separate /boot at the beginning of the drive as a precaution. as for the matter of initrd's, this is the way that I understand it: in a non-lvm root fs, your root fs type must either be compiled in or in the initrd image. in a lvm root, you MUST have an initrd even if lvm is compiled into the kernel (not as a module) because you need to run a vgchange -ay and you need your lvm config files in the initrd. as for having /boot (booting the kernel) straight in an lvm fs, I have no idea. If I am wrong, someone please correct me. Sincerely, Jason Edgecombe "IT3 Stuart B. Tener, USNR-R" wrote: > I am curious what version of lilo in fact supports ReiserFS tails. I am running Mandrake 8.0, and using the lilo supplied therewith, and have been booting a / partition as ReiserFS (with tails I believe, how do I check?).