[lug] Redhat 7.1 beta and RieserFS

Michael J. Pedersen marvin at keepthetouch.org
Tue Feb 13 11:58:16 MST 2001


On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:10:45AM -0700, Ferdinand Schmid wrote:
> You also can't boot off a Reiserfs partition.  So you need at least a small
> /boot partition that is ext2.

Actually, yes, you can boot off of a reiserfs partition. It requires a
particular option be passed in for mounting / (I believe it's -notail), but it
can be done. I know it can, because I've done it in the past.  Check their
webpage for specifics on how to do it.

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