All these problems were fixed by using the milo provided by Stefan Reinauer that is compatible with Reiserfs: http://www.suse.de/~stepan/binaries/2.2-18/
Even the v2.4.13 kernel started working that heretofore would not boot. On Thursday 01 November 2001 03:11 pm, James D. Freels wrote: > I have a second Alpha machine (533 Mhz 164lx) running > Debian/Alpha/Woody and v2.4.12 of the kernel. It uses the Alphabios > and milo to boot. That works fine if sda1 stores the kernel, > ldlinload, and milo, sda2 for root, and sda3 for usr. > > Now I want to rearrange some of the partitions (to convert all to > reiserfs) and temporarily use sdb3 for root and sdb4 for usr while > still maintaining sda1 as the boot space for milo, kernel, etc. I > have modified the OS options of Alphabios with the parameters > "root=/dev/sdb3 single", but milo seems to ignore this after the boot > (note: I have /etc/fstab temporarily modified in the sdb3 copy to use > sdb4 as usr, etc.). I can see the parameters getting passed during > the boot, but the system boots exactly as before. It is as if the > normal parameters were hard coded into milo somehow. > > Can anyone help me with this? One option I probably should do anyway > is boot from a floppy (passing the same parameters) and see if this > will work. A second option I might do is convert to SRM (similar to > my first Alpha) which I like better anyway. > > Also, the remaining partitions are already converted to reiserfs. I > also tried to boot v2.4.13 and it gave me problems for some reason. > I noticed a v2.2-18 of milo that supports reiserfs on alphalinux.org. > Do I need this to boot in this instance? The version of aboot I use > on my SRM machine supports reiserfs also. Is this my problem? -- James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED] - work [EMAIL PROTECTED] - home
