[SOLVED] Red Hat ReiserFS b0rkage preventing install. :(

Dr_Stein · Last edited by Dr_Stein on Sun Oct 16, 2005 6:39 pm; edited 1 time in total

Ok, here's the quick version:

* Server is a serverbeach.com dedicated server. Athlon XP 2600 CPU. 2 x 160gb HD.

* Server has Red Hat Enterprise Linux on it.

* uname -a gives
"Linux box.pbp.net 2.6.9-11.EL #1 Fri May 20 18:17:57 EDT 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux"

* df -h gives
[root@box init.d]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 145G 1.5G 136G 2% /
/dev/hda1 99M 8.3M 86M 9% /boot
none 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm
[root@box init.d]#

Now, /dev/hdc is an identical drive, but it's totally blank. I tried going through the installation documentation and I made my /boot, made my swap, and made my / partition as ReiserFS.

The problem is that I cannot actually mount the ReiserFS partition from within Red Hat.

[root@box init.d]# mount /dev/hdc3 /mnt/gentoo
mount: fs type reiserfs not supported by kernel
[root@box init.d]#

I've been searching and Googling and reading Usenet forums, but the overwhelming majority of pages that I've run across so far refer to how to get ReiserFS during a Red Hat 9 install, Fedora cruft, White Box Linux... anything BUT this particular situation.

How can I get ReiserFS working so I can install Gentoo onto this second hard drive? I tried asking in a Red Hat-ish place and they basically told me off because I was trying to de-Red Hat my box. Ugh.

I have NO PHYSICAL ACCESS to this box. It's on the other side of the country. I DO have permission to install Gentoo onto this machine.

Can anyone help me? If anyone would even be willing to log in and gimme a hand, that's cool too. Currently the box has no services running on it, and I can blow it away as I please.

Thanks!

*Solution*

I just made a 40gb / and formatted it as ext3, which Red Hat does just fine with. I made the rest of the disk /home as ReiserFS after I got Gentoo installed.

Suicidal · l33t Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 959 Location: /dev/null

I have never tried this in REHL but I Have in redhat 9.

I dled a vanilla kernel from kernel.org unpacked it in /usr/src
setup the symlink
configed, compiled, etc ..

I would try it on a machine that you actually have physical access to first to work out the possible bugs, also it would probably be a good idea to statically compile in the network drivers.

codergeek42 · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 5:58 am Post subject:

You have root access, I take it? Try loading the reiserfs kernel module:

Dr_Stein · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 2:30 pm Post subject:

Dr_Stein · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 2:31 pm Post subject: