On 7/12/10, cov...@ccs.covici.com <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > > Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > >> Further ideas : I tried booting a Gentoo kernel with the Ubuntu / >> & avoided the kernel panic, but ran into an Ubuntu init error, >> so there's nothing inherently wrong with /dev/sda8 . >> >> Also, I checked the Ubuntu kernel config file, conveniently in /boot , >> which has ReiserFS configured as a module, whereas Ext2 & Ext3 are 'y'. >> That suggests that it's running into a road-block: >> it needs to use ReiserFS to start 'init', >> but can't load modules till it has already started 'init'. >> >> In that case, I need to re-install Ubuntu using Ext2 or Ext3 . >> In fact, it wb as a bug in Ubuntu's "advanced" install. >> >> Does that make sense to anyone else ? > > Or the module could be in the initrd -- should be. Also, be sure you > have root= in your append line.
Yes, I'd be surprised if Ubuntu didn't have reiserfs easily available. OP: see what man page of mount has to say about reiserfs, --tail/--notail and LILO. ext3 doesn't sound so bad any more after reading the man page section. -- Arttu V. -- Running Gentoo is like running with scissors
