On Saturday 03 December 2005 20:26, Charles Johnston wrote:
> I've been keeping quite up-to-date with new kernels, so I compiled
> 2.6.15-rc4 plus the reiser4 patches from 2.6.15-rc3-mm1 plus the
> reiser4-fix-fsync.patch.
>
> I'm using grub 0.97 with the 20050808 reiser4 patch.
>
> Put the new kernel in /boot, modified /boot/grub/menu.lst for it,
> rebooted, and got the following error, after "Uncompressing Linux":
>
> ran out of input data
>
> system halted
>
>
> So, after trying different things to no avail, I just made another copy
> of the kernel file, and it booted fine from that. I'm thinking it's
> something to do with the way the original file is layed out on disk, and
> grub w/ reiser4 is having trouble with it.
do you still fail to boot with that kernel? would you run:
debugfs.reiser4 -P <device> | bzip2 -c > <device>.bz2
on <device> which the kernel file sits in and provide it to
me for downloading. Then I will be able to debug the problem.
> What's the best way to read off the meta-data for just that one file?
> I've wanted to contribute something to Reiser4 development for a while
> now.
grub debugging is needed here, if libreiser4 reads the file correctly.
probably reiser4progs/demos/busy, the 'cp' command, can reveal the
problem too.
> Perhaps I can figure out what's causing this boot problem and fix
> it.
it would be probably better to check first that the problem is not
fixed yet.
--
Vitaly
