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Topic: dsl and reiserfs, would an install on riserfs work?

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James (forgot to log in)
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Posted: Aug. 09 2005,04:16

[quote=cbagger01,Aug. 08 2005,18:21][/quote]
"The DSL kernel is the exact same kernel that is used in the KNOPPIX version 3.4 dated 5-17-2004 livecd.

I have done a KNOPPIX hard drive install using this disk and using ReiserFS as my filesystem type."
So have I! That exact same Knoppix version, in fact. But It does not seem to work using DSL. Are you sure that it's still the exact same kernel? The DSL 1.4 kernel only chokes out when accessing the reiserfs partition, which makes me suspicious. Theres still a few more things I can try, so I'll test them and get back to you.

"No special boot partitions[...]"
I already have a boot partition. I do this so that if something happens to my Linux partition, I can still get to Windows and everything else. Also, I can't really use the Lilo config because I use GRUB. (I had one too many "L 99 99 99" experiances with Lilo)

What is this Smart Boot Manager thing? I've never heard of it.

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Posted: Aug. 09 2005,04:37

Ok, here is what the DSL entry in grub looks like when I hit 'e' to edit it at boot.

root (hd0,0)
kernel /linux24 root=/dev/hda4 ro

My first partition is the boot partition. I've copied the dsl kernel there. Line one is good.
As my main Linux partition (using reiserfs) is on hda4, the second line looks good, too.

These are the errors I get when I boot. Everything leading up to them is normal.
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
kernal panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:04

It looks as though the DSL kernel is identifying my partition as FAT? Where is it getting this from?

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Posted: Aug. 09 2005,22:29

If you boot via livecd, can does your RieserFS partition get detected OK and can you mount it and read the files?

If not, you may need to boot knoppix and do a rieserfsck on the partition.

Smart Boot Manager is a tiny program that can either be installed inside your MBR or run as a boot floppy disk and it can detect all of your OS partitions and let you boot each OS assuming that the bootloader is properly installed on that partition.

I use it as a way of booting different OS without touching my MBR.

For example, I have a PC with Win98/WinXP/PeanutLinux installed on multiple hard drives and I can boot any of them via the Smart Boot Manager and not touch either MBR.

But Smart Boot Manager will not work unless your target OS has a properly setup bootloader on the target partition, so you still need msdos.sys, syslinux.sys, ntloader?, lilo, etc to exist on this partition.

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