[TriLUG] booting Mandrake with reiserfs

zzd zzd at nc.rr.com
Thu Jul 3 22:09:15 EDT 2003


On Thursday July 03 2003 02:24 pm, Owen Berry wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 21:29, crimsun at fungus.sh.nu wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:19:08PM -0400, zzd wrote:
> > > When I boot, the kernal indicates it is loading and then nothing,
> > > total freeze. When I reinstall formatting all with ext3, it boots
> > > up fine. Any ideas?
> >
> > I assume you're using a Mandrake-provided kernel. Have you checked
> > for errata RE: reiser? I know there have been a few critical ones
> > pushed into vanilla 2.4.22-pre...
> >
> > -Dan
>
> I'm using reiserfs on Mandrake 9.1. Worked out of the box, as it did
> on 9.0.
>
> /dev/hda5 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime,notail)
>
> - Owen


I am installing from the 9.1 discs using a the kernal images they 
contain. 
When configuring lilo, do I need to add the above "rw,noatime,notail", 
do I also need to add type=reiserfs?

I am no lilo expert, so any help here would be appreciated.

z



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