mandrake
Brian Densmore
DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com
Wed Jan 30 15:25:27 CST 2002
Gene,
You might try recompiling the kernel with reiserfs or ext3 built in.
Not as a module. It is almost certainly a module now (especially if it
is the original kernel), and as such will be in the modules file in ...
you guessed it, /boot. that is why you are having trouble. This is why I
use ext2 for the /boot partition and make it a read-only filesystem.
HTH,
Brian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Dascher [mailto:gedascher at multiservice.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 8:24 AM
> To: Kclug
> Subject: RE: mandrake
>
>
> Mandrake 8.2 is in beta, according to an article on slashdot.
> Apparently,
> you'll be able to install it as small as 65MB! I like
> Mandrake, except for
> one problem that I keep having. I have installed 8.0 and 8.1
> on a Dell
> Inspiron laptop aith very few modifications. The problem I
> seem to have is
> that somehow, in the normal usage of the laptop (I have a
> dual-boot config
> with Win98), it looses its ability to mount the /boot
> partition! The laptop
> boots just fine in Linux, but when it is mounting the
> different partitions,
> it says it can't mount /dev/hda2 as /boot because the
> filesystem does not
> exist. I first used ReiserFS, and then switched to EXT3, but it still
> happens. I don't know if it is because I have SuspendToDisk
> enabled or
> what, but I'm confused. I think I will try the Gentoo or
> LinuxFromScratch
> this time to try and streamline the system more.
>
> Gene
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> > [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of
> Jonathan Hutchins
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 5:24 PM
> > To: Kclug
> > Subject: RE: mandrake
> >
> >
> > On top of the various problems, there hasn't been any significant
> > update to
> > 8.1 since it came out in September.
> >
> > Then again, RedHat is still running 7.2.
> >
> > How recent is the latest Debian? SuSE?
> >
> >
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