Make sure that ReiserFs support is compiled into the kernel monolithically, instead of being included as a module.
e.g. you should have: File systems ---> <*> Reiserfs support instead of: File systems ---> <M> Reiserfs support also make sure that you have the correct options compiled in/excluded per the docs at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml under "Code listing 16.6:" On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 23:09, Joshua Banks wrote: > --- Jeffrey Smelser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After Re-Reading this, make sure since your using ReiserFs is either not a module > > in the kernel, > > or your specifying the initrd for it. Or you will have problems. > > Can someone please explain this a little better. This doesn't make any sense above. > > > I keep getting what appear to be strange bootup messages. I don't know if this is > something that I > need to fix or not. Yet everything appears to be working just fine. > > "Sep 29 17:57:18 deadmeat kernel: ReiserFS version 3.6.25 > Sep 29 17:57:18 deadmeat kernel: VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly. > Sep 29 17:57:18 deadmeat kernel: Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed > Sep 29 17:57:18 deadmeat kernel: Unmounting old root" > > Is this anything to be worried about when I see this uppon bootup everytime? > > > Here's my "fstab" info: > ************************************************************************************************ > # NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts. > /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 1 > /dev/hda3 / reiserfs noatime 0 0 > /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 > > # NOTE: The next line is critical for boot! > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > > # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for > # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). > # (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will > # use almost no memory if not populated with files) > # Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this: > > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > *************************************************************************************************** > Here's what "grub.conf' looks like currently: > > ********************************************************************************************* > > default 0 > timeout 30 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > title= Gentoo Linux > root (hd0,0) > kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hda3 vga=795 > initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 > > ******************************************************************************************** > > In my kernel under: > > Block Devices----> > <*> RAM disk support > > (8192) Default RAM disk size > > [*] Initial RAM disk (initrd) support > > > [*] Per partition statistics in /proc/partitions > > Thanks, > JBanks > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search > http://shopping.yahoo.com > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
