just an other Linux rant (was: Re: [geeks] fw)

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 10:49:35AM +0200, Jochen Kunz wrote:

> Latest interresting Linux experience: Cloned Linux box on used HDD.
> I suspect there was some Win* on that HDD before. Repartitiond, 
> mkreiserfs (have to use Suse, puke), tar src-HDD | tar dest-HDD,
> lilo. reboot, kernel panic, can't start init. Bootet old disk. 
> mounted new disk, all OK!? lilo, retried, the same. Looked closer 
> at boot messages: UMSDOS? Why wants it to mount / as UMSDOS?
> Ohhh. Linux guesses the / FS type. You can't tell it / = reiser.
> So it snooped around, found some FAT residuum => / FS type = UMSDOS.
> Found no way to tell it to use reiser. 
> dd-ed /dev/zero to the disk, did the whole thing again and now it works.
> I will have some "nice" Linux LVM games the next days...

I would have though that / fs type would be an optional boot parameter
to be passed to the kernel by lilo.  

I keep meaning to try LVM.  It sounds nice.  I haven't heard anything
to indicate that NetBSD has anything similar.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd