Re: Booting a reiserfs root partition with a grub floppy

[Adrian Phillips]

>>>>> "Volker" == Volker Augustin <address@hidden> writes:

    Volker> /dev/hda9 on / type reiserfs (rw) /dev/hda7 on /boot type
    Volker> ext2 (rw) /dev/hda10 on /home type ext2 (rw) [...]

    Volker> Here is my boot menu entry:

    Volker> root (hd0,6) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda9 enableapic
    Volker> ide=nodma initrd /initrd

    Volker> I already tried this with /dev/hda7 and /dev/hda8 to no
    Volker> avail.

    Volker> Grub tells me the following about my partitions:

    Volker>  Possible partitions are: Partition num: 0, Filesystem
    Volker> type unknown, partition type 0x7 Partition num: 4,
    Volker> Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0x6 Partition num:
    Volker> 5, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7 Partition
    Volker> num: 6, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
    Volker> Partition num: 7, Filesystem type unknown, partition type
    Volker> 0x82 Partition num: 8, Filesystem type unknown, partition
    Volker> type 0x83 Partition num: 9, Filesystem type is ext2fs,
    Volker> partition type 0x83 Partition num: 10, Filesystem type
    Volker> unknown, partition type 0x7

Ah, you need a newer grub, yours doesn't understand reiserfs - which
version do you have (you may need to grab the CVS version but try the
newest non CVS first)

Sincerely,

Adrian Phillips

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