From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Edward Shishkin Subject: Re: Installing Fedora Core with root on Reiserfs Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:43:47 +0400 Message-ID: <42DB5DB3.3020809@namesys.com> References: <42DAB928.9000303@namesys.com> <200507181701.26284.russell@coker.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <200507181701.26284.russell@coker.com.au> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: russell@coker.com.au Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com, fedora-test-list@redhat.com, jeffm@suse.com, reiser@namesys.com Russell Coker wrote: >On Monday 18 July 2005 06:01, Edward Shishkin wrote: > > >>FC4-test3 (and perhaps FC4) installs its own version of grub which seems >>to interact incorrectly with reiserfs. The problem is that reiserfs.ko >>module located on reiserfs partition can not be loaded. >> >> > >Firstly there is no situation in which reiserfs.ko will be loaded from a >reiserfs partition. > > Hmmm... actually this is a default situation when installing with root on reiserfs.. >If the root file system is reiserfs then reiserfs.ko will (or at least should) >be included in the initrd. > Right, but initrd is in /boot which is not something separate: it is on the same reiserfs root partition.. > The GRUB support for ReiserFS is based on the >file /boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5 which is only needed for /boot on ReiserFS. > >Some people believe that /boot should be a separate file system to the root >file system regardless of all other issues. All systems which use LVM for >the root file system on Fedora (the default partitioning involves LVM) will >have a separate /boot file system because GRUB apparently doesn't support LVM >(yet). > >So having a /boot with Ext2/3 is an easy solution to any ReiserFS booting >issues, and a solution that will be forced on the users if they use LVM. >When using a small /boot file system ReiserFS is not a good choice. A quick >test showed that Ext3 gave 18M more usable disk space from a 100M file system >than ReiserFS, this will essentially force all LVM users to use Ext3 >for /boot. > > > >>1. (Requires some partition formatted by ext2). >> At the end of installation process (after invitation to reboot) boot >>from some rescue CD, mount reiserfs root partition (say to /mnt) and move >>all the compressed images (vmlinuz-xxx and initrd-xxx located at /mnt/boot) >>to your ext2 partition. Then edit the file /mnt/boot/grub/grub.conf >>pointing a new location for the images. Reboot and finish the >>installation >> process. >> >> > >This can be done automatically through the Anaconda GUI or through kickstart. >Just specify that /boot is to be a separate partition of type Ext3. > > >