You need to put -notail in your /etc/fstab as well. I have personally built an entire system based upon reiserfs (via http://www.linuxfromscratch.org). It does work. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Callum Lerwick" <lerwick at tcfreenet.org> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 2:14 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG:23060] Reiserfs as root partition on RedHat > "Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote: > > > > You can use option "notail" > > > > mount -o notail -t reiserfs /dev/hda1 / > > Has anyone gotten this to work? I've had no luck with it. It'll boot, > but it'll just display LIL, skip the O, then go straight to Loading > Linux... > > No chance to enter a command line, and no appends in the lilo config get > appended. Not a good thing. Reiserfs started kernel panicing on my > firewall, so I had an excuse to go back to e2fs... > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org