Re: What boot loader supports reiserfs root partitions?

Moritz Schulte (moritz@hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de)
Sun, 9 Apr 2000 19:55:02 +0200


On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 Felix von Leitner wrote:

> I am currently investigating using reiserfs as root partition file
> system, but to my dismay the different boot loaders do not support
> reiserfs. lilo says
>
> Hole found in map file (alloc_page)
[...]

afaik you have to mount your boot partition with the parameter
'-notail'. then copy the stuff in /boot somewhere and back. then lilo
should work fine.
search at http://devlinux.org/namesys/, there should me some
information, too.

-moritz

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