I think that your hypothesis is flawed. No BIOS has the ability to
understand filesystems. It sees raw hardware. Its quite possible that
the MBR of that drive is corrupted, which is making it appear as if
there is no bootable OS on the drive.
--- Condon Thomas A KPWA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > From: David A. Bandel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Does Reiser FS work for / partitions?
> >
> > reiserfs will work on any partition -- caveat: your kernel must be
> > compiled with reiserfs included (not a module). Then even /boot can
> be
> > reiserfs.
>
> I've run into a problem with a new hard drive and a ReiserFS installed
> on
> it. My current suspicion is that the BIOS must also accept/handle the
> ReiserFS for it to be able to boot from a drive formatted in that
> manner.
>
> My reason for assuming this is that I have installed SuSE 7.2 Pro on a
> new
> hard drive, and the Bios tells me there is an Hard Drive Failure if I
> try to
> boot from it. But if I boot from CD or floppy I can not only see that
> installation, but access it, as well.
>
> Does anyone know if this is the case? Or a way to circumvent this
> problem
> if so?
>
> I haven't found a BIOS update that mentions file system type. I am
> reluctant to re-install (for the third time) if this won't fix the
> problem.
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