Re: What boot loader supports reiserfs root partitions?

From: Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 09 2000 - 20:51:53 EST


Felix von Leitner writes:

> I am currently investigating using reiserfs as root partition file
> system, but to my dismay the different boot loaders do not support
> reiserfs. lilo says
>
> Hole found in map file (alloc_page)
>
> Has anyone ever used reiserfs as root partition?
> I have looked into syslinux, grub and nuni and wonder if I am forced to
> add a FAT partition with syslinux now.

Look at GRUB again. There is a patch that lets it read Reiserfs.
Unlike LILO, GRUB actually reads the filesystem. I think you can
even type in a pathname to select a kernel.

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