Hi,
The problem that prompted me to ask for advice about booting 2.4.1 was solved
quite simply by running mkinitrd.
However... funny you should mention that reiserfs may not be compatible
across the 2.2.x -> 2.4.x divide, because I have been struggling with
undeletable files and other oddities since I moved to 2.4.1-7 (and now
2.4.1-9).
The problems are were especially apparent when I tried to build 2.4.1-9 from
source. The process created sub-hierarchies of undeletable directories and
files, and the rm command would produce kernel oopses (sometimes, sometimes
not). Other times, the rm would just freeze, leaving the system partially
functional; however I would be unable to shutdown gracefully. All in all, an
interesting day. I managed to recover (how entirely, I'm not sure) by
booting off the Mandrake rescue CD and doing a reiserfsck (from the
reiserfs-utils-3.6.25-2mdk package).
I am open to suggestions... I would like to avoid reverting to 2.2.x, unless
there is a clear indication that there is no other alternative.
Yves
Le 11 Février 2001 22:25, J . A . Magallon a écrit :
> On 02.10 Yves Pelletier wrote:
> > Hi there. This is sorta related to this thread, so I hope you won't mind
> > if I butt in a little.
> >
> > I built the Cooker's 2.4.1-7mdk kernel on my 7.2 system. No problem
> > there. However I have a reiserfs boot partition, and the new kernel
> > panics and stops when trying to mount the root fs. I'm missing
> > something obvious (I hope) what could it be?
>
> I your previous kernel was a 2.2+reiser patches, the reiser in 2.4 is
> not the same as that in 2.2. I know for sure that 2.4 reiser partitions
> can not be mounted on 2.2, but I am not sure about the opposite.
