reiserfs with the new livecd...

[disturbed]

hi
I have downloaded the livecd with the 2.6 kernel and tried it with my new system on my Sata disk.
I have done my disk like this:

hde1 : NTFS (win2k)
hde5 : fat32 (data)
hde6 : /boot
hde7 : swap
hde8 : /

I want to format my hde8 in to reiserfs but I get the following error:

[suhlhorn]

Hi disturbed-

I have the same situation. I have been struggling to get gentoo running on my new SATA system. I initially formatted my root partition with resierfs v3.6, but have been unable to build a 2.6 kernel that booted my root partition successfully. More info at:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=101841&highlight=
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=98531&highlight=

I decided to try the whole stage1 process again, just in case I missed some important step. In doing so, I got the same message you posted above (I must have missed it the first time around).

After digging through google groups, it looks like reiserfs 3.6 is supported in kernel 2.4, and therefore 2.6 also. I did find one thread however about some Debian patches applied to 2.6.0test9 that broke the reiserfs support:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=LEqp.62o.3%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dreiserfs%2Bversion%2Blinux%2Bkernel%2B2.6%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26hl%3Den%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch

Does anyone know if gentoo modifies 2.6.0-test9 in development-sources, or about the reiserfs problem?

-stephen

[suhlhorn]

Take a look at this thread and check the post by AlmostAl:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=101724&highlight=developmentsources

I had the same problem, maybe it can help you.
-stephen

[ccourtne]

I had the same issue... it seems like the mkresiserfs is trying to determine which version of the reiser format to use and can't tell from the kernel. If you specify the format directly it works.

Try this:

[ndbruin]