Re: Question about Reiser4 (how to boot it?)

lkml777
2007-04-27T23:53:00Z

Thanks, that is certainly helpful, but that only mounts one directory
(partition) as Reiser4.

This I have already done.

I was more interested in how to have a whole partition dedicated to
Reiser4 and being able to boot into it.

By any chance did you do that?

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:37:05 +0800, "Jeff Chua"
<jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com> said:
> On 4/27/07, lkml777@123mail.org <lkml777@123mail.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi Jeff, could you outline the procedure that YOU used to get Reiser4
> > installed and running.
>
> Pretty much the same as the steps from ...
> http://linuxhelp.150m.com/installs/compile-kernel.htm
>
> cd /usr/src
> tar --use=bzip2 -xpf linux-2.6.21.tar.bz2
> ln -nsf linux-2.6.21 linux
> cd /usr/src/linux
> bzip2 -d -c /tmp/reiser4-for-2.6.20.patch.bz2 | patch -p1
> # copy your old .config here
> make menuconfig
> File systems --->
> <*> Reiser4 (EXPERIMENTAL)
> make
> make modules_install
> # copy ./i386/boot/bzImage to the boot directory
> # reboot
>
>
> # download, compile and install ...
> libaal-1.0.5.tar.gz
> reiser4progs-1.0.6.tar.gz
>
> I got them from ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4progs/
>
> Take an unused partition, and create reiser4fs on it...
>
> mkfs.reiser4 /dev/sda8
> mount /dev/sda8 /mnt
>
> Or you may want to try it on a loop device ...
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=disk1 bs=1024k count=100
> mkfs.reiser4 -yf disk1
> mount -o loop disk1 /u0
>
> Here's an entry in /etc/fstab
> /dev/sda8 /u3 reiser4 noatime 0 0
>
>
> I hope this is good enough to get you started.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff.
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