Re: Booting a reiserfs root partition with a grub floppy

[Arno Wilhelm]

Hello


 I think you should name it not menu.1st but menu.lst with a 'L' instead a 
'1'.


Greetings,

        Arno


> >> Hello, is there a way to boot a linux system with a ext2fs
> >> boot and a reiserfs root partition (suse 7.3 standard
> >> configuration) with a grub floppy? I would like to check
> >> whether this works before messing up my mbr ...
> >
> >Just follow the instructions in the Fine Manual for creating a grub
> >floppy and boot using it.
>
> Well, I already did that. More specifically, I followed the FAQ section
> "How to create a GRUB boot floppy with the menu interface". I also edited
> the menu.1st before to (supposedly) match my system. The kernel boots, then
> I get a kernel panic and am told that the root file system cannot be
> mounted. My fdisk -l /dev/hda listing is as follows:
>
> /dev/hda1   *         1       255   2048256    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2           256      3310  24539287+   f  Win95 Erw. (LBA)
> /dev/hda5           256       510   2048256    6  FAT16
> /dev/hda6           511       891   3060351    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda7           892       893     16033+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda8           894       943    401593+  82  Linux Swap
> /dev/hda9           944      1335   3148708+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda10         1336      1597   2104483+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda11         1598      1852   2048256    7  HPFS/NTFS
>
> Linux mount tells me
>
> /dev/hda9 on / type reiserfs (rw)
> /dev/hda7 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/hda10 on /home type ext2 (rw)
> [...]
>
> Here is my boot menu entry:
>
> root (hd0,6)
> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda9 enableapic ide=nodma
> initrd /initrd
>
> I already tried this with /dev/hda7 and /dev/hda8 to no avail.
>
> Grub tells me the following about my partitions:
>
>  Possible partitions are:
>    Partition num: 0,  Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
>    Partition num: 4,  Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0x6
>    Partition num: 5,  Filesystem type u
> nknown, partition type 0x7
>    Partition num: 6,  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
>    Partition num: 7,  Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82
>    Partition num: 8,  Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x83
>    Partition num: 9,  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
>    Partition num: 10,  Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
>
> Any ideas besides rtfm? :-))
>
> Volker
>
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