Oleg, it turned out that the partitions are of v.3.6... anyway, i applied the patch and it won't even get past compilation..
i guess that there's no way for me to 'downgrade' to v.3.5 while preserving the current partitions and the data in it? Toni --- Oleg Drokin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 09:59:11PM -0700, Antonie > Nygma wrote: > > > stuffs on (fresh) kernel-2.2.19 and could not > > succesfully boot after compilation and rebooting. > > the error: Unable to mount root fs (kernel panic). > > i suspect this is because all the partitions in > the > > current HDD are reiser-FS. > > Yes. > > > can anybody help me point out what i need to do to > get > > k-2.2.19 to run on the machine? > > > If your reiserfs partitions are of v3.5 format (see > dmesg output, > 2.4 kernels will output warning in case of v3.5 fs > being mounted), > you must apply latest reiserfs patch (against > 2.2.20, but should apply fine > to 2.2.19) from > ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfs-for-2.2 > then recompile kernel and it should boot. > If you have v3.6 filesystem format, then you cannot > use it from 2.2 kernel. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
