Re: [Sheflug] kernel compile woes....

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 06:47:50PM +0100, Barrie Bremner wrote:
>     ross> ext2..... no. reiserFS was a module with the old kernel so i
>     ross> left it as a module even though my main partition is
>     ross> reiserfs! thought it was a bit odd but it must be ok like
>     ross> this as it gets through a consideralble amount of the boot
>     ross> process.

If your _root_ partition is ReiserFS, and you don't have inited, you _must_
have reiserfs compiled statically into the kernel. 

Reconfigure the kernel, and when you get to reiser press 'y' instead of 'm'.

Cheers,

Alex.

>     ross> it's this initrd bit.... i've got no idea what this is? do i
>     ross> need it (i guess i do) do i have to make a new file for the
>     ross> new kernel?
> 
> InitRD - Initial RamDisk - this is used to pre-load modules for
> filesystems and/or controllers (RAID controllers, SCSI etc) before
> anything else is done.

And, in this case, ReiserFS, which is how the old kernel worked :)

Cheers,

Alex.
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