On August 25, 2001 05:20 am, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Sunday 26 August 2001 07:17 am, David Aikema wrote:
> > I've tried installing slackware 8.0 using only reiserfs on a
> > system here. When I try to bootup the system lilo freezes at LI
> > (suggesting a corrupt kernel IIRC) though. Do I need to preserve
> > /boot as ext2 here or would it be some other sort of problem that
> > I'm having?
>
> I don't know whether this is your problem or not; the following is
> required for using a reiserfs /boot with grub. The /boot partition
> should have been mounted with -o notail; if not, the structure of
> the files and journal records are different, and grub can't cope
> with that. If this is the problem, copy your /boot files somewhere
> else, umount the /boot partition, make new reiserfs on the
> partition, moun /dev/hdx -o notail -t reiserfs /mnt/xxx, copy back
> the /boot files you preserved.
> Since you are using Lilo, the problem may be that you need LBA32 or
> some tinkering with your bios?
On my workstation I'm running lilo with no problem (also slack 8) so it
should be able to survive the barriers. I haven't checked out what mode the
bios shows my hard disks as being in (ie. lba or not) but with a /boot
partition as the first 20 megs of the drive I figured there should be nothing
in the way of problems.
The main problem with troubleshooting this machine is that it has no cd-rom
sitting in it (I installed via nfs) as I have none kicking around at the
moment. Ah well.... guess the slackware install disks should give me all the
support that I need.
David Aikema
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