[Umlbuilder-devel] Re: Reiserfs on /

[Roger B. <ro...@ro...>]

> I noticed that one of UML Builder's know problems was that reiserfs
> doesn't work on / and you are talking about the need to use an initrd to
> solve this.  

The reason is because the standard UML rpm that Jeff distributes
has reiserfs as a module.  The modules reside on the root filesystem
(under /lib/modules) and root can't be mounted.

If you build UML yourself, then you can include reiserfs as a builtin
so this situation won't arise.

UML Builder does in fact create an initrd.  The main problem is that
I don't know how to use this.  Some distributions (eg Caldera) don't
include the mkinitrd program either.

Roger