On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 05:01:33PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:26:27PM -0400, Marty wrote:
> > Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > >Upon booting a reiserfs copy of my woody system, I am told,
> > >
> > >Can't find a Minix of Minix v2 filesystem on device 03:46
> > >mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev2/root
> > > or too many mounted file systems
> >
> > Did you remember to make the partition bootable? Is the partition
> > type set to 83 (ext2)?
>
> I have a working. bootable woody on my machine, and a copy which
> is not bootable. My intention is to upgrade the copy, while leaving
> the original intact in case things go wrong. (they have once already,
> before this current attempt, so I am not being overcautious)
>
> The one that fails has its /boot marked bootable. The one that
> succeeds does not. All the relevant partitions have partition type 83.
> Only the failing Linux has / as a reiserfs.
Hi Hendrik,
I used Knoppix as a debian install and have a reiserfs /. I have to have
'reiserfs' in /etc/modules and then make an initrd with this
modules(man mkinitrd ).
Cheers,
Kev
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