Re: GRUB & Rieserfs

[Chuck Stickelman <cstick@miamisystems.com>]

San Segkhoonthod wrote:

> GRUB do *support* ReiserFS. My debian boxes have
> ReiserFS root file system and I boot them with GRUB.
>
> san

Then I've done something wrong!
I'll try providing more specifics.
kernel 2.4.5
hda1    ~120MB    ext2    /boot
hda2    ~128MB    swap
hda3    ~27GB        reiserfs    /

When I originally created the reiserfs I mounted without
using the notail option.  I then copied files over from a
small partition I had created as a temporary holding space
on hdc1 using tar (making sure the tar options preserved
owner/group/permissions).

Some documents indicate that LILO pukes at reiserfs'
default handling of sparse files and file tails.  Though since
LILO needs byte offsets and the like and GRUB doesn't
I assumed that notail would not be needed.

I've tried:
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.5 root=/dev/hda3 single

and
root (hd0,2)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.5 root=/dev/hda3 single

both fail.
The error message says that init could not be found and to try
to use `init=` on the command line.  I tried adding `init=/sbin/init`
to both of the above scenarios without any change in the symptom.

Still trying.
Chuck