Re: What is device 03:4c?
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:36:04PM -0400, Marty wrote:
> Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> >The original system can read and write the reiserfs, so I presume the
> >copy would have the same drivers.
> >
> >Unless, of course, some boot process needs to read the root partition
> >before it has discovered the reiser kernel modules. Is that likely?
> >Just when *does* the boot process load its modules from /boot? Does
> >it have to read from /etc first? Could that be the problem?
>
> Not only /etc but /lib/modules too. Sounds like a chicken and egg problem.
> You could try compiling in the reiser module(s).
>
> >I still have another empty partition available : /dev/hdb13,
> >the same size as /dev/hdb12, the root partition for
> >the copy. I suppose I could make /dev/hdb13 into an ext2
> >file system, copy /dev/hdb12 into it, and see if that boots.
> >It would answer questions whether the use of reiserfs is the
> >problem.
>
> Sounds like you're on the right track.
Yes. It is starting to make sense now. And the sarge system I have
on another machine, entirely in reiser, presumably has the reiser
modules compiled into its kernel.
So once I have upgraded my ext2 copy top sarge and then upgraded
to a spamking new sarge kernel, I should be able to clone it
onto a reiser file system and get it all to work.
Thanks. It's been good thinking with you. I'll post again when
I've managed to get things working -- or not. Presumably in a day or two.
-- hendrik
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