unable to mount root fs / reiserfs /HELP please

unable to mount root fs / reiserfs /HELP please

[Joel Cordonnier]

Hi !

I just compile a 2.4.15 kernel on my HP omnibook XE3.
At the moment, I have a dual partition win2k/suse 7.3.

I compile and copy the LILO boot sector to a floppy
disk. On my /boot partition of my Suse parition there
is a reiserfs fs.

I have read that reiserfs is not supported for a
'default' kernel and that i have to include
patches...right `?

Can someone explain me what to do ??


Thanks
/Joel

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Re: unable to mount root fs / reiserfs /HELP please

[Michal Gornisiewicz]

Joel,

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 12:30:48PM +0100, Joel Cordonnier wrote:
> I just compile a 2.4.15 kernel on my HP omnibook XE3.
> At the moment, I have a dual partition win2k/suse 7.3.
> 
*snip*
>
> I have read that reiserfs is not supported for a
> 'default' kernel and that i have to include
> patches...right `?

Reiserfs has been in the main kernel since 2.4.1-pre4. All you need to
do is enable it when you compile the kernel. The option is
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS under File Systems. You will need to compile it into
the kernel, not as a module to boot your root file system.

Also, make sure you have a recent version of lilo, with reiserfs support.


MG

Re: unable to mount root fs / reiserfs /HELP please

[Oleg Drokin]

Hello!

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 12:30:48PM +0100, Joel Cordonnier wrote:

> I compile and copy the LILO boot sector to a floppy
> disk. On my /boot partition of my Suse parition there
> is a reiserfs fs.
Recent LiLo versions can deal wih reiserfs. Also if you mount /boot with
-o notail option, and then write your kernel there, even old LiLo will work.
Alternatively you can store your kernel on floppy along with LiLo.

> I have read that reiserfs is not supported for a
> 'default' kernel and that i have to include
> patches...right `?
No.

Bye,
    Oleg

Re: unable to mount root fs / reiserfs /HELP please

[Greg Cockburn]

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I don't think you want to use a 2.4.15 kernel
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.16

pre1:
- - Correctly sync inodes in iput()                          (Alexander Viro)

If you go back through some old postings I am sure you can find issues that 
people had when unmounting filesystems. (ie it totally corrupted filesystem)

I ran this for a day or so and I know I at least unmounted once, but better 
safe than sorry, and soon had patched 2.4.15 to 2.4.16-pre1

seeya

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 00:30, Joel Cordonnier wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I just compile a 2.4.15 kernel on my HP omnibook XE3.
> At the moment, I have a dual partition win2k/suse 7.3.
>
> I compile and copy the LILO boot sector to a floppy
> disk. On my /boot partition of my Suse parition there
> is a reiserfs fs.
>
> I have read that reiserfs is not supported for a
> 'default' kernel and that i have to include
> patches...right `?
>
> Can someone explain me what to do ??
>
>
> Thanks
> /Joel
>
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