3.7.7 (32bits) betatesting experiences

[maxinou]

Please guys, don't panic, reiser4 works very well in my Elive 64 from first day and all my data are in a separate partition and sync with Unison between 2 laptops and an USB HDD.
The only issue I wanted to signal that was the upgrade from 32 kernel as doesn't see the reiser4 partition doesn't allow to start system with.
Tomorrow I'll started a live Elive 64 USB flash drive and I'll reinstall grub from there or even reinstall Elive 64.
I have no major issues with, but is good to be prevented on this possible issue upgrading a dual ext4 and reiser4 partition systems that maybe nobody had thinked about.

[triantares]

@Rebel450

on sda1
right, @triantares?

Nope, the reiser was on sda8 there, so it's from there the update-grub has to be run.
If all goes well then Grub (from 3.7.6) will put itself as default and recognize the other 2 as options.

[Rebel450]

Mhm, shit you are right

• since there is an extended partition scheme
  

[Rebel450]

@maxinou

Tomorrow I'll started a live Elive 64 USB flash drive and I'll reinstall grub from there or even reinstall Elive 64.

Ya, sure -
but from where is the question herein.
Very interesting, btw.

Follow @triantares, after my very famous fast thinking
I came to the conclusion....
ahm hold on, must think again
... that he is right here (again, damn !#@$¡)

[triantares]

Be sure to read up how to chroot into your remounted root file system with rw options. Otherwise all files will be non-editable. Use Elives mounts-manager for that,

There was a good write up on how to run a virtualized system through chroot on the forum.

Run applications from any other operating system (in your Elive)

You can run applications from any other operating system from your Elive system using one of the two explained methods. This is sometimes needed when we need to run applications that requires a specific version of glibc, or from a different architecture like 64bit, or that the application requires a very specific system of Linux like if you would like to run the Tizen SDK. Easy & Compatible: The Virtualized method Setting up a Virtual Box machine, you can run other operating systems (we will re…

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[Rebel450]

@triantares

YAGS

LOL
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[Thanatermesis]

@Rebel450

May be @Thanatermesis knows why...

not really, this post is too old @maxinou to know it, try to apug and see if still happens

@Rebel450

May be @Thanatermesis knows how to fix the boot manger then....

well, if your system has not reiser4 support @maxinou that's the reason of why is not detected, make sure that the module is loaded too, you may consider switch out of reiser4

as @triantares comments, i think that one of the recent versions had the kernel signed (which doesn't support reiser4), also, the 32bit version doesn't has reiser4 too

@Rebel450

so, he can not even boot from Reiser4 - what was it again (ahm fast thinking..) - /sda8/ ?

yes you can, if:

• the version of elive (the kernel) has reiser4 support
• you don't use secure boot
• you don't upgrade to a version of elive which doesn't has reiser4 support
• you don't install another OS in another partition (which doesnt has reiser4 support) and you want to use their bootloader

note: (again), the 32bit version doesn't has reiser4 suppport included

[maxinou]

@Thanatermesis

not really, this post is too old @maxinou to know it, try to apug and see if still happens

Don't worry, the "issue" is that 32 bit kernel doesn't support reiser4 fs so for it those partition is unreadable.

As I upgrade all laptops to 3.7.8 I installed in last position 3.7.8-64 so Grub reads all file systems.