Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Malcolm-Rannirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> However, I encountered a problem with the install. My previous install had a >> reiserfs root partition and I decided to switch it to ext3 as I was wiping it >> to do the upgrade anyway. However the partion tool apparently set the mount >> options for reiserfs rather than ext3 (fstab read: /dev/hda5 / notail ... >> which is a reiserfs option). This resulted in the boot sequence being unable >> to remount root as writable, at which point many things failed to work. > > I just tried to reproduce you problem.. and failed. How on earth > do you manage to do an upgrade and change the FS type of the /?
He wasn't doing an upgrade, actually, but a re-install over previous partitions. I had the same problem, sorta: Computer running mdk8.0-pre<something> (can't remember what it was) with a bunch of cooker (from the 8.0-8.1 time), all partitions are reiserfs. Booted 9.0 install CD. Expert/Install. Got to partitions. Selected mountpoints. Got to the format-partitions step and noticed that I had forgotten to convert / from reiserfs to ext3, so I went back to the begining of the step, selected ext3 for partition type, said yes when asked if I was sure, went to next step, formatted / and continued installation without problems. Reboot. And...no dice :) / was mounted read-only due to bad options in fstab. Booted with 9.0 CD, went into rescue, opened fstab of new installation and...it had notail as one of the options for / partition. Changed that to defaults, rebooted and everything worked. So...it seems like the installer is not dealing correctly with changing an existing reiserfs partition to an ext3 partition. Vox -- Pain is the gift of the gods, and I'm the one they chose as their messenger.... For info on safety in the BDSM lifestyle http://www.the-vox.com Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.
