LILO boot problem

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, David Demland wrote:

> I have been working on this for most of the day and I still do not have it
> running. I have found out something, the boot CD does not boot because of
> the file system is a reiserfs, or at least that what the message displays. I
> have found some information about this on the Internet but these messages
> say I have to use initrd. I am sort of lost. How do I get all this to work.

David,

Have a look at a recent lilo manual page.

       When the second stage loader has received control from the first stage,
       it prints the letter "L", and when it has initialized itself, including
       verifying the "Descriptor Table" - the list of kernels/others to boot -
       it  will  print the letter "O", to form the full word "LILO", in upper-
       case.

And ...

       lilo  is  known  to have problems with the reiserfs introduced with the
       2.2.x kernels, unless the file system  is  mounted  with  the  'notail'
       option.  This incompatibilty has been resolved with reiserfs 3.6.18 and
       lilo 21.6.

Try the "notail" or reiserfs 3.6.18 and lilo 21.6.

Jeremy C. Reed
http://bsd.reedmedia.net/