Re: [Sheflug] ReiserFS and /boot

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Barrie Bremner wrote:
> 
>  Hi all.
> 
>  I'm in the process of shifting all my data back and forth to prepare to
> format a number of filsystems as ReiserFS.
> 
>  I already have a ReiserFS capable kernel image in /boot (I'm using it
> now...).
> 
>  If I leave /boot as ext2 and make everything else, including / ReiserFS
> will everything work OK?

 Weeeeellll, now. Got bored. Sorted most of it out. Broke a few things,
and now I need help. Again.

 I've got all my data on both of my disks.

 Both disks have an ext2 /boot partition, ReiserFS / and a largish swap
partition.

The drive that was the root disk is not booting...I've killed LILO
somehow. I've managed to get LILO onto the other disk, swap a few cables
around and boot it as /dev/hda (it is normally /dev/hdg) dunno how, but
it does boot.

 The mkbootdisk command failled because it looks like my kernel image is
too big (~900k) to go on the disk.
 Before I start recompiling a smaller kernel, and still finding I don't
know what I'm doing, how do I get LILO to write to the MBR of /dev/hde?

 I've configured /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab to have /dev/hde1 as
/boot (ext2), /dev/hde5 as swap and /dev/hde6 as / (ReiserFS), however
LILO seems to just write to /dev/hda.

 Currently I have the bootable flag set on /dev/hda1 (which works) and
/dev/hde1 (which doesn't)

 Help!

 Baz.

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