Re: reiserfs on all my SRM-alpha drives: how I did it
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 04:52:33PM -0500, Will Woods wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Falk Hueffner wrote:
>
> > It seems Will Woods from Compaq is working on this, at least he has filed
> > a feature request at
> > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=466983&group_id=32540&atid=405841.
>
> Yeah, I was hoping I could take the easy way out and adapt GRUB's reiserfs
> support to aboot for the 0.9 release, but it didn't work out - aboot would
> read or two deep and then crash. Something about the way GRUB and aboot
> handle memory differently gave it problems, I suspect. I eventually gave
> up, patched a few other things, and released 0.9 without reiserfs support.
>
Another option would be to look at yaboot, the PPC bootloader. IIRC, it
handles reiserfs.
Good luck,
Jurriaan
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