"James D. Freels" wrote: > > 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 >
I can also vouch for the fact that reiserfs support is built into the newer MILOs from Stephan. During my unsucessful attempts to get the new MILO going for my XLT a couple of months ago, I tried re-compiling from Stephan's source code. One of the setup questions was on reiserfs support, and I found that I had to patch the "stock" Debian kernel source with the reiserfs patch to eliminate some compile errors early on in the process. Stephan indicated that he used a SuSE kernel source and a CVS "test" version gcc-3.0 to compile his kernels. This leads me to suspect that there might be other patches applied to a "stock" 2.2.18 kernel for the SuSe kernel too, but I couldn't figure that one out. I never got a complete compile without errors, and the MILO for the XLT still freezes up at the "switching to PAL code at ......" line...even on the most recent boot-floppy versions. I have given up on figuring this out, as it is beyond my level of knowledge, I don't use reiserfs (don't need it here right now), and I can still use the old MILO from Potato to get the current boot-floppies going....did it just last weekend. Cheers, -Don Spoon-
