Reiser root partition won't start grub

Henning Glawe glaweh at physik.fu-berlin.de
Thu Dec 1 12:08:58 CET 2005


On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:52:34PM +0100, Remi Bergsma - MoveNext wrote:
> I'm setting up around 20 Debian boxes using FAI. It works really nice so
> far. Everything is configured to boot from the network using DHCP and PXE.
> 
> The problem is when I configure the root partition to be reiserfs, the
> install completes without errors, but grub doesn't get started. So, the
> box won't boot. When I change reiser -> ext3 (the default) it works witout
> any problem.

I am using fai+reiserfs without any problems for more than 3 years.

to further debug your problem:
is grub written at all to your MBR? 
what do the logfiles tell about the grub installation?

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c u
henning



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