fai boot floppy 2.4.18 based + reiserfs

[Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn]

Easiest way to do it is to build a 2.4.x kernel with builtin reiserfs
support (see the instructions in fai-kernels README to find out which
kernel options _must_ be enabled).

Do _not_ forget to specify the right option(s) to make-fai-bootfloppy!
I use dhcp to boot, so in my case I do:

  # make-fai-bootfloppy -f /tmp/fai-bootfloppy 'ip=dhcp'

It will be different if you use bootp.

See kernel source linux/Documentation/nfsroot.txt too.

On Mon, 6 May 2002, Thomas Lange wrote:

> It would be nice, if you could post a summary if you solve this problem
> booting 2.4.X with reiserfs.

No sweat with the 2.4.x+reiserfs. Just make sure the fstab options are
correct. I have:

,----
| primary /               500     defaults,notail         ; reiser
| logical /tmp            1000    defaults                ; reiser
| logical swap            500
| logical /var            1000    defaults                ; reiser
| logical /usr            3000    defaults                ; reiser
| logical /home           10-     defaults                ; reiser
`----

and grub as boot manager.

The 'notail' option on / is there as a safety measure (in case people
dislike grub and replace it with lilo). According to 'man mount':

,----
|        notail By  default,  reiserfs stores small files and `file
|               tails' directly into its tree. This  confuses  some
|               utilities  such as LILO(8).  This option is used to
|               disable packing of files into the tree.
`----


Cheers,
Cristian