Boot from nearly any linux CD, mount your partitions, chroot to
your hard drive, recompile your kernel, run lilo, exit out of
your chroot enviroment, umount your partitions, reboot. That's
how I do it if I move a drive to a different system and things
won't boot.
--- Allen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just "cloned" a hard drive. I matched the partitioning and
> file contents. The source is a desktop system. The target is
> a laptop.
>
> But one thing that I changed was that the file systems on the
> desktop are ext2. On the laptop I installed reiserfs.
>
> I then tried to boot using grub on a floppy. Failed. It
> didn't
> recognize the root partition. I suspect the problem is that
> the
> kernel needs to have the reiserfs module installed. So I will
> need to tell it to load that module at boot time.
>
> The boot partition is separate from the root partition. There
> is a kernel on the boot partition, but no modules. I would
> need
> to load reiserfs from the boot partition, right? But where?
> Do I need to place the module under some funky directory path
> on the boot partition? Or can I just place it in the same
> place as the kernel and hope it looks there?
>
> Thank you for your help. I want to get some experience with
> reiserfs.
> This seemed like a good opportunity.
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