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Re: LI at boot after making \boot reiserfs



On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 11:35:57PM -0500, Pascal Hos wrote:
> I seem to have messed up now.
> I just made all my partitions except for / reiserfs (this includes
> /boot). Now when I try to boot the computer Lilo doesn't get past LI and
> just sits there. Of course I do not have a rescue disk that will allow
> me to mount a reiser partition, so I'm stuck.
> I assume that I would have to rerun lilo to get out of this, however
> since lilo can't read /boot/boot.d it cannot update.
> Also of importance was thæt I forgot to add the notail option for /boot
> in fstab, however I did change this after I rebooted with standard
> rescue disk.
> What could I do to rectify this situation and what actually caused it?

LILO is not compatible with reiserfs, either make /boot ext2 again or
use GNU grub instead.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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