Cannot boot from a reiserfs partition

Will Backman whb at ceimaine.org
Mon Apr 5 13:21:19 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 09:07, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> I booted from the FC2test2 CD with "linux xfs reiserfs". I installed /
> to a new reiserfs partition.
> 
> When I boot I just something about that the kernel can't find a valid
> ext3 partition. Is this a bug or a *feature*? If it is intentional I
> would sincerely suggest that it should be possible to boot from reiserfs
> since it out performs ext3 greatly for most purposes.
> 

>From what I have read on this list, SELinux requires some extended
attributes on the filesystem.  Reiserfs does not support these.





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