Re: [Sheflug] ReiserFS and /boot

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

On 23 Jan 2001 01:57:20 +0000, Barrie Bremner wrote:
>  Weeeeellll, now. Got bored. Sorted most of it out. Broke a few things,
> and now I need help. Again.


I think I'm going to start keeping a counter: "Things I fixed which
weren't broke". We seem to get an awful lot of those round here :))))


> 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.


How come you were booting / and not /boot? Do you mean mounting? Have
you tried the funky mount notail options *before* installing lilo?

Other way to do it is to use an initrd.


>  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?

Does lilo do devices other than hda? I seem to recall having problems.
Might be worth trying grub - I use it, it rocks ;) The way I got lilo to
work was to swap the drives, lilo /dev/hda, and then swap them back.
/etc/fstab needed cuddling along, but it worked...

Cheers,

Alex.



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