Was the resiserfs system compiled into the kernel or as a module? 
I've seen this before and resiserfs was always being loaded as a module. 
  

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 10:48:33AM -0700, der.hans wrote:
> moin, moin,
> 
> OK, installed SuSE 8.0 for some testing here at work. Specifically trying to
> test some of their kernels.
> 
> Install went fine. They have a nice installer.
> 
> Booted fine. Worked. Duh, it's GNU/Linux :).
> 
> Tried to install a new kernel, but it got bitchy about replacing
> k_deflt-blah.blah with k_i386-blah.blah or any other k_<arch>. That was
> annoying. Don't replace it, rather make the old kernel the backup kernel.
> Sure they've got the failsafe in place, but if the new kernel doesn't work,
> I want the old kernel in place.
> 
> Speaking of the new kernel not working...
> 
> Can't load root fs on 03:01. OK, tried the failsafe. Ooops. Same problem. Hmm,
> they have memtest86 on there by default ( a cool thing ), so I tried that.
> Hey, that works. Doesn't boot the OS, though, just runs memory tests.
> memtest86 doesn't use an initrd, but the other two do. Hmmm...
> 
> OK, booted from the install CD and used the rescue option. Reran lilo. Still
> kernel panic on boot. Tried "lilo -r /mnt" and "lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf".
> No worky. Also tried "rescue root=/dev/hda1", but that still went to the
> rescue root fs rather than the rescue kernel on the disk root fs.
> 
> SuSE defaulted to reiserfs.
> 
> Hmm. "VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)."
> 
> After that come a bunch of notices about not being able to load the modules
> that are supposed to be inserted at boot-time.
> 
> Finally, "fatfs: bogus logical sector size 5632" shows up twice before the
> panic.
> 
> I booted it several times with the original install kernel, so it was
> working prior to installing the new kernel. Don't know if the failsafe mode
> had been working.
> 
> I verified that /etc/fstab lists root on /dev/hda1 as reiserfs. Nothing
> about fs type in lilo.
> 
> My standard solution of installing Debian won't work because I'm
> specifically testing SuSE :).
> 
> Anybody know how to get this working?
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
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