ya that was resolved as haing to mount he reiserfs partiotin witht he
-notail option as follows
> I am currently investigating using reiserfs as root partition file
> system, but to my dismay the different boot loaders do not support
> reiserfs. lilo says
>
> Hole found in map file (alloc_page)
>
> Has anyone ever used reiserfs as root partition?
> I have looked into syslinux, grub and nuni and wonder if I am forced to
> add a FAT partition with syslinux now.
lilo works, but you must mount the reiserfs partition with the "notail"
option.
reiserfs tries to be efficient with disk space by taking the excess
portions of
files that do not fill up a whole block and it takes these "tails" and
packs
them together. This leaves holes in the files which prevents lilo from
finding
a continuous kernel image.
As root something like:
mount /dev/root / -o remount,rw,notail
cp -a /boot /boot1
rm -rf /boot
mv /boot1 /boot
lilo
The process of copying the files after the remount will cause the
files to all be rewritten without any tails,
Syed Khader Vali wrote:
>
> >>>>> On Wed, 5 Jul 2000 09:38:04 +0530, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>said:
>
> mdavid@vsnl> linux?I've heard that it should not be used on boot
> mdavid@vsnl> partition.
>
> And where did you hear that ? on LIH only I presume ? Right ? THe mail
> you are receiving is from a laptop with reiserfs on it on both boot
> and home partitions.
>
> Regards
> Carter
> --
> An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
>
> Syed Khader Vali (Siddiq) - Debian GNU/Linux.
> MQSeries Dedicated Development Center - Technology Group.
> Encrypted Mail Preferred - Finger sidcarter at symonds.net For GPG/PGP Key.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help
> people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your
> messages are counterproductive to this purpose, your privileges to
> submit messages can and will be revoked.
--
_END_
Robin S Chatterjee Yahoo pager ID -Robinchatterjee
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
FAX 1-(815)550-6171
Robin's Poetry Pages
http://www.geocities.com/singerosongs
Robin's Perl Pages
http://www.geocities.com/robinchatterjee
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help
people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your
messages are counterproductive to this purpose, your privileges to
submit messages can and will be revoked.
