Quel Qun wrote:
> Since I am obviously not the only one having this problem, I now feel there
> is definitely something broken (kernel or mkinitrd?). Also, grub often tells
> me that the initrd.img is corrupted or contains bad data. Lilo tells me
> there is a hole in the map.
I had similar problems. mkinitrd seems to be broken.
No matter what kernel I used my reiserfs root fs could never
be mounted.
A solution is to recompile the kernel with reiserfs not as
module but inside the kernel. Then you don't need an initrd.
Cheers,
Andreas