On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 05:01:33PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:26:27PM -0400, Marty wrote: > > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >Upon booting a reiserfs copy of my woody system, I am told, > > > > > >Can't find a Minix of Minix v2 filesystem on device 03:46 > > >mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev2/root > > > or too many mounted file systems > > > > Did you remember to make the partition bootable? Is the partition > > type set to 83 (ext2)? > > I have a working. bootable woody on my machine, and a copy which > is not bootable. My intention is to upgrade the copy, while leaving > the original intact in case things go wrong. (they have once already, > before this current attempt, so I am not being overcautious) > > The one that fails has its /boot marked bootable. The one that > succeeds does not. All the relevant partitions have partition type 83. > Only the failing Linux has / as a reiserfs. Hi Hendrik, I used Knoppix as a debian install and have a reiserfs /. I have to have 'reiserfs' in /etc/modules and then make an initrd with this modules(man mkinitrd ). Cheers, Kev -- counter.li.org #238656 -- goto counter.li.org and be counted! `$' $' $ $ _ ,d$$$g$ ,d$$$b. $,d$$$b`$' g$$$$$b $,d$$b ,$P' `$ ,$P' `Y$ $$' `$ $ "' `$ $$' `$ $$ $ $$ggggg$ $ $ $ ,$P"" $ $ $ `$g. ,$$ `$$._ _. $ _,g$P $ `$b. ,$$ $ $ `Y$$P'$. `Y$$$$P $$$P"' ,$. `Y$$P'$ $. ,$.
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