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