On Monday 18 July 2005 06:01, Edward Shishkin <edward(a)namesys.com> wrote:
FC4-test3 (and perhaps FC4) installs its own version of grub which
seems
to interact incorrectly with reiserfs. The problem is that reiserfs.ko
module located on reiserfs partition can not be loaded.
Firstly there is no situation in which reiserfs.ko will be loaded from a
reiserfs partition.
If the root file system is reiserfs then reiserfs.ko will (or at least should)
be included in the initrd. The GRUB support for ReiserFS is based on the
file /boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5 which is only needed for /boot on ReiserFS.
Some people believe that /boot should be a separate file system to the root
file system regardless of all other issues. All systems which use LVM for
the root file system on Fedora (the default partitioning involves LVM) will
have a separate /boot file system because GRUB apparently doesn't support LVM
(yet).
So having a /boot with Ext2/3 is an easy solution to any ReiserFS booting
issues, and a solution that will be forced on the users if they use LVM.
When using a small /boot file system ReiserFS is not a good choice. A quick
test showed that Ext3 gave 18M more usable disk space from a 100M file system
than ReiserFS, this will essentially force all LVM users to use Ext3
for /boot.
1. (Requires some partition formatted by ext2).
At the end of installation process (after invitation to reboot) boot
from some rescue CD, mount reiserfs root partition (say to /mnt) and move
all the compressed images (vmlinuz-xxx and initrd-xxx located at /mnt/boot)
to your ext2 partition. Then edit the file /mnt/boot/grub/grub.conf
pointing a new location for the images. Reboot and finish the
installation
process.
This can be done automatically through the Anaconda GUI or through kickstart.
Just specify that /boot is to be a separate partition of type Ext3.
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