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Re: ReiserFS: "Filesystem type unknown"
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Jochen Hoenicke |
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Re: ReiserFS: "Filesystem type unknown" |
Date: |
Thu, 4 Oct 2001 11:56:22 +0200 |
On Oct 2, Jim Caley wrote:
> I had grub working with an ext2 partition, but now that I've converted
> this partition to reiserfs I can't seem to get grub to recognize it.
> I am able to run Linux off the reiserfs partition using a boot floppy.
>
> I'm working through the "Installing GRUB natively" section of the info
> doc. "find" isn't finding the reiserfs partition (/dev/hda8), which
> *does* have a /boot/grub directory. FWIW, I put a listing of this dir
> at the bottom of this message. Here's what I'm getting in GRUB's
> command-line interface (it would seem find should be able to locate
> /boot/grub/stage1 on (hd0,7), but it doesn't):
>
> grub> root (hd0,7)
> Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x83
I think, grub doesn't understand the reiserfs super block. I don't
have a spare partition to test latest reiserfs, but if you would send
me your reiser super block I can probably see where it fails.
You can extract the super block with dd:
dd if=/dev/hda8 of=super.dat bs=512 skip=128 count=1
Jochen