Re: switch from Reiserfs to ext3: Grub or LILO won't install

[Christian Mack <mack_kn@gmx.de>]

Netbasics BV - Beheer wrote:
> Hi Christian,
> 
> I'm no longer on the mailinglist so I send you this.
> 
> I tried the following: a separate boot partition with ext3, which did not
> work. A separate boot partition on Reiserfs, which did work.
> 
> The next day I discovered the server had crashed with ext3 filesystem
> errors. This happened a few times while running benchmarks.
> I was testing Slackware vs Debian as a new dedicated Mysql server.
> Because of the crashes, and Slackware was faster and because the new
> server needs to go into production ASAP, I had no other choice than to
> dump Debian.
> 
>> Could you check if there is a /target/boot/ directory while installing?
>> You can do this in VT2 (ALT+F2), just before installing grub.
> 
> Yes, there was a /target/boot with stage1 and stage2 files in it.
> 
> I'm sorry I can't be of debugging help any further. Thanks for helping.
> 
> Anne

Hi Anne

Thank you for your help anyway.


Bye
Christian