You need to put -notail in your /etc/fstab as well.  I have personally built
an entire system based upon reiserfs (via http://www.linuxfromscratch.org).
It does work.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy at veldy.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Callum Lerwick" <lerwick at tcfreenet.org>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 2:14 AM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:23060] Reiserfs as root partition on RedHat


> "Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote:
> >
> > You can use option "notail"
> >
> > mount -o notail -t reiserfs /dev/hda1 /
>
> Has anyone gotten this to work? I've had no luck with it. It'll boot,
> but it'll just display LIL, skip the O, then go straight to Loading
> Linux...
>
> No chance to enter a command line, and no appends in the lilo config get
> appended. Not a good thing. Reiserfs started kernel panicing on my
> firewall, so I had an excuse to go back to e2fs...
>
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