On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:36:04PM -0400, Marty wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >The original system can read and write the reiserfs, so I presume the > >copy would have the same drivers. > > > >Unless, of course, some boot process needs to read the root partition > >before it has discovered the reiser kernel modules. Is that likely? > >Just when *does* the boot process load its modules from /boot? Does > >it have to read from /etc first? Could that be the problem? > > Not only /etc but /lib/modules too. Sounds like a chicken and egg problem. > You could try compiling in the reiser module(s). > > >I still have another empty partition available : /dev/hdb13, > >the same size as /dev/hdb12, the root partition for > >the copy. I suppose I could make /dev/hdb13 into an ext2 > >file system, copy /dev/hdb12 into it, and see if that boots. > >It would answer questions whether the use of reiserfs is the > >problem. > > Sounds like you're on the right track.
Yes. It is starting to make sense now. And the sarge system I have on another machine, entirely in reiser, presumably has the reiser modules compiled into its kernel. So once I have upgraded my ext2 copy top sarge and then upgraded to a spamking new sarge kernel, I should be able to clone it onto a reiser file system and get it all to work. Thanks. It's been good thinking with you. I'll post again when I've managed to get things working -- or not. Presumably in a day or two. -- hendrik > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
