Russell Coker wrote:
On Tuesday 19 July 2005 01:59, Jeff Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If the root file system is reiserfs then reiserfs.ko will (or at least
should) be included in the initrd.
Right, but initrd is in /boot which is not something separate: it is on
the same reiserfs root partition..
The situation you're describing is one that is well tested by now.
If the root filesystem is reiserfs, and /boot is a part of it,
reiserfs.ko MUST be in the initrd. Otherwise, there is a chicken/egg
problem and the system will not boot.
This works in all my tests. The reiserfs.ko module is apparently in the
initrd.
Also if the original bug concerned a lack of reiserfs.ko in the initrd then
re-running GRUB would not fix things.
I can't reproduce the bug, it just works for me.
Sorry for the confusion.
My phrase "reiserfs.ko located on reiserfs" sounds bad, and I should
clarify that the reiserfs.ko is contained in the initrd with other
binaries/scripts, and this initrd looks fine from the standpoint of
kernel/reiserfs, but not from the standpoint of grub/reiserfs-emulation.
The logs obtained from serial console don't include anything about
loading initrd, and there is the following detail: a dump created by
debugreiserfs -d shows that the initrd (i_size: 1128235) is represented
by an indirect item (276 4K-blocks), while grub found that this is not
sector-aligned:
debugreiserfs:
--------------
| 0|54 17448 0x1 IND (1), len 1104, location 2992 entry count 0, fsck
need 0, format new|
276 pointers
[ 1347049(276)]
^^^^^^^
grub:
--------------
grub> blocklist /boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.1286_FC4smp.img
(hd0,4)10776392[10-512],10776393+15,10776408[0-10],10776408[10-512],10776409+15,...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...,10778584[10-512],10778585+11
(the actual dump is large, so I have cut the middle)
This blocklist doesn't contain last zeroed sectors 10778596-10778599
occupied by the initrd, but I am not sure if it is essential. The
"mysterious offset 10" looks more suspiciously.
I'll look at grub internals which are responsible for accessing reiserfs..
Thanks to everyone,
Edward.
