civileme wrote: > > On Sunday 28 October 2001 04:59, Robin Turner wrote: > > I'm reinstalling Mandrake 8.0 and get the following problem while > > assigning partitions: > > > > Mount failed > > No such device > > > > This is happens two partitions: /dev/hda1 (vfat) and /dev/hda2 > > (reiserfs). > > > > It also happens with a more complete partitioning, i.e. > > > > /dev/hda1 (vfat) > > /devhda5 (reiserfs, /) > > /dev/hda6 (swap) > > /dev/hda7 (reiserfs, /home) > > > > This has never happened before on this box - any > > ideas about why it's doing it now and what I can do about it? > > > > Robin > > Yep, you need a notail mount of reiser to use as root and that causes kernel > oopses in 8.0. Do not use Reiser for /.
Hmm - it worked OK before. Maybe because that was because I was instaling over an old ext2 installation, rather than vfat. I prefer reiser to ext2 because we have a lot of power cuts here, not to mention users who like to reboot into Windows by hitting the restart button. > > 8.1 Reiser is much improved So I hear. Problem is I can't do a net install of 8.1 - it fails to retrieve the second stage ramdisk. This seems to be a problem with every other version of Mandrake: 7.1 was fine, 7.2 failed, 8.0 was fine, 8.1 fails. Robin
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