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[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> The Sunday 2007-12-02 at 19:04 -0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
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> > When I boot from 10.3 x86_64 DVD or from the ext3 drive, I can mount 
> > the jfs partition, also chroot works. In rescue mkinitrd also says the 
> > jfs module is included. I may try with jfs in front of ext3 in case 
> > it's due to a race condition.
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> I think you need a small /boot partition in ext2 format.
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> - -- Cheers,
> Carlos E. R.

That would be a step a long way back in time. I thought slicing and 
dicing a separate /boot partition went out with the need for steam 
trains, when PC BIOS restrictions meant you couldn't boot from a 
partition extending beyond the first 1024 cylinders. If the partition is 
ext3, reiserfs or anything else, it doesn't matter and I suspect jfs 
wouldn't be that immature. Having said that, there is a gremlin in there 
somewhere.
Perhaps later this week I shall try a new 10.3 jfs install on a 
relative's box currently running 10.0, we have a spare 160G IDE drive 
sitting there ready.

Regards
Sid.
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Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot
Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support 
Specialist, Cricket Coach
Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

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