Trying to get 2.2.19+3dfx+reiserfs

[Anthony Lau <anthony@greyweasel.com>]

Hi,

I have a StarMax 4000 (PMac 4400-like) with a coupla MacOS SCSI 
drives, a dedicated 30GB IDE for linux, and a 3dfx video card. The 
onboard ATI graphics are fubared due to some partially fried VRAM.

I am a PowerPC Debian newbie, but have used Macs since the SE and 
have installed Debian on an Athlon-ATA100-Nvidia-digital 
LCD-reiserfs-2.4.4kernel setup.

So, since my Mac was aging, I thought I'd switch it over to Linux and 
see if I can get some extra functionality out of it. What I would 
like to get is a kernel that can do 3dfx console and some sort of 
journaling file system.

I have tried 2.2.19 + 3dfx (works!) + reiserfs (doesn't!)
linux-2.4-paulus (3dfx doesn't, can't see if reiserfs does or not)
linux-2.4-benh    (same problem as paulus)

For the 2.2.19, the reiserfs patch applied without any problems. I 
recompiled the kernel with reiserfs support. Installed from source 
the reiserfsprogs-3.0.j-esafe. Made a reiserfs partition.

to /etc/fstab, I added:

/dev/hda5         /reiser        reiserfs    default     0 2



mount -a  returned that no valid reiserfs was found. Tried:

mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda5 /reiser

and got the same problem.

Is there anyway to tell if reiser was compiled into the kernel? cat /proc/???

Thanks,

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Anthony Lau