yoper and Kernel 2.6.9

[englishpremier]

Has anyone at all managed to get yoper to work with kernel 2.6.9?

I have tried it various times, but when i reboot it complains that is cannot detect my / partition or that their is a problem with it.

my / partiiton is formatted in reiserfs which i have compiled into the kernel, so i don't know what the problem is as 2.6.8.1-7 works just fine.

[englishpremier]

hmm. after a fresh install i've tried this again with the 2.6.9 kernel (now nitro sources patched) and still no luck.

upon boot i get a message saying:

####an error occured during the file system check
####dropping you to a shell


From there i can give my root password and gain readonly access to the system. It no seems the error is on /dev/hda6 which has been reformatted in reisferfs now (as i thought it may have been reiser4 giving me the problems last time).

if i try #reiserfsck /dev/hda6 i get an error saying that is cannot open the device.

is this just a problem with Yoper? (when i ran gentoo the 2.6.9 worked fine)

[sarumont]

Did you perhaps format it in reiser4? Also you may have forgotten support for your chipset. Without this, yoper wouldn't be able to see any of your disks or partitions.

[englishpremier]

er no it is formatted in reiserfs it was previously formatted in reiser4, i now that for a fact as if i had it wrong in the fstab then the other kernels wouldn't boot. Support for my chipset is also compiled into the kernel.

Like i said this problem has only happened on yoper using the vanilla 2.6.9 kernel.

[steve_v]

I would suggest investigating what patches the yoper team added to the vanilla 2.6.8 kernel, it might be a reiserfs version mismatch. mixing versions of reisrefsprogs / kernel drivers can have kinda unpredictable results. (I hosed a disk like that)
Does your chipset have any bugfixes in the kernel? are they enabled? tried disbling hdparm / dma?
How did you compile the new kernel? I would do a make oldconfig
on the .config from the yoper kernel...
Is your initrd set up properly?
I would get the SRPM for the latest yoper kernel an looking at what patches have been used... but I can't afford an ~80mb download right now.


Steve.