Have you tried compiling reiserfs into the kernel instead of a module? I know you can use the mkinitrd to make a ram disk with all of the modules you need to load before the file systems can be mounted, but I have found it easier (sometimes) to just compile it in.
- Jason B. On Thursday 11 July 2002 04:31 am, Darren King wrote: > I went and picked up the cooker kernel (source rpm) and build it to try > and address some major hardware problems I have. > > I built the kernel, and installed it (make menuconfig, make dep, make > bzImage, make modules, make modules_install). I updated lilo.conf and > added a new entry as I kept the new kernel separate from my existing > kernel. > > well the kernel panic'd. Didn't boot at all. I get messages about > reiserfs and stuff but I can't read them as they fly by too fast. I > looked under /var/log but couldn't find the messages. Where would the > boot log for these failed boots be stored (what file?) > > It seems as though my boot doesn't get far enough to start writing the > log to a file. Here are some of the messages that I can read: > > kmod: failed to exec modprobe -s -k freereiserfs errno=2 > mount: error 19 mounting reiserfs flags notail > pivotroot:pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed 2 > > any idead? I compiled in reiserfs suppport but it doesn't look good! > > Darren
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