[reiserfs-list] lilo dies after converting / to reiserfs

2001-08-09 Thread Bill Shupp
All, I'm a bit of a newbie to reiserfs, but have been searching the docs/groups and can't work this out. I'm trying to convert / to reiserfs. I can copy all my root data from /dev/hda6 to /dev/hda7, edit/run lilo, and boot from /dev/hda7 as a reiser root partition. But as soon as I make

Re: [reiserfs-list] lilo dies after converting / to reiserfs

2001-08-09 Thread Bill Shupp
on 8/9/01 5:18 PM, Pietro Abate at [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake: Hi On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 04:46:20PM -0500, Bill Shupp wrote: LIL lilo does not work with reiserfs; it does not detect the partition type (AFAIK) try to use grub instead. Thanks Peter, I will. Do you know if LILO will

Re: [reiserfs-list] lilo dies after converting / to reiserfs

2001-08-09 Thread Chris Mason
On Thursday, August 09, 2001 05:22:29 PM -0500 Bill Shupp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/9/01 5:18 PM, Pietro Abate at [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake: Hi On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 04:46:20PM -0500, Bill Shupp wrote: LIL lilo does not work with reiserfs; it does not detect the partition type

Re: [reiserfs-list] lilo dies after converting / to reiserfs

2001-08-09 Thread Chris Mason
On Thursday, August 09, 2001 05:27:35 PM -0500 Bill Shupp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/9/01 5:23 PM, Chris Mason at [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake: lilo does work with reiserfs ;-) Bill, which version of lilo are you running? lilo version is 21.4-4. Ah, that's the problem. You want at least

Re: [reiserfs-list] lilo dies after converting / to reiserfs

2001-08-09 Thread Bill Shupp
on 8/9/01 5:31 PM, Chris Mason at [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake: Ah, that's the problem. You want at least 21.6, or you need to mount /boot with -o notail, and rerun lilo again. The problem is that older versions of lilo can't deal with the packed tails on some of the map files. -chris Ok,

Re: [reiserfs-list] lilo dies after converting / to reiserfs

2001-08-09 Thread Jeff Mahoney
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 12:18:10AM +0200, Pietro Abate wrote: Hi On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 04:46:20PM -0500, Bill Shupp wrote: LIL lilo does not work with reiserfs; it does not detect the partition type (AFAIK) try to use grub instead. LILO works quite well with ReiserFS. I've