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Subject: Re: Question about Reiser4 (how to boot it?)
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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:38:36 -0700
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Thanks, that is certainly helpful, but that only mounts one directory
(partition) as Reiser4.

This I have already done.

I was more interested in how to have a whole partition dedicated to
Reiser4 and being able to boot into it.

By any chance did you do that?


On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:37:05 +0800, "Jeff Chua"
<jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com> said:
> On 4/27/07, lkml777@123mail.org <lkml777@123mail.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Jeff, could you outline the procedure that YOU used to get Reiser4
> > installed and running.
> 
> Pretty much the same as the steps from   ...
>      http://linuxhelp.150m.com/installs/compile-kernel.htm
> 
> cd /usr/src
> tar --use=bzip2 -xpf linux-2.6.21.tar.bz2
> ln -nsf linux-2.6.21 linux
> cd /usr/src/linux
> bzip2 -d -c /tmp/reiser4-for-2.6.20.patch.bz2 | patch -p1
> # copy your old .config here
> make menuconfig
>     File systems  --->
>           <*> Reiser4 (EXPERIMENTAL)
> make
> make modules_install
> # copy ./i386/boot/bzImage to the boot directory
> # reboot
> 
> 
> # download, compile and install ...
>           libaal-1.0.5.tar.gz
>           reiser4progs-1.0.6.tar.gz
> 
> I got them from  ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4progs/
> 
> Take an unused partition, and create reiser4fs on it...
> 
> mkfs.reiser4 /dev/sda8
> mount /dev/sda8 /mnt
> 
> Or you may want to try it on a loop device ...
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero  of=disk1  bs=1024k count=100
> mkfs.reiser4 -yf disk1
> mount -o loop disk1 /u0
> 
> Here's an entry in /etc/fstab
>     /dev/sda8    /u3    reiser4    noatime      0 0
> 
> 
> I hope this is good enough to get you started.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff.
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