The 2.5.67-mm1 kernel cannot mount the filesystem and gives a kernel panic. This does not occur with the development-sources kernel. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge the mm-sources-2.5.67-r1.ebuild 2. compile in reiserfs 3. attempt to boot the system with a reiserfs partition as the root Actual Results: received a kernel panic message: unable to mount root fs Expected Results: recognize the reiserfs partition and mount in successfully I haven't tested all my configuration with a non-reiserfs partition. I have attempted to remove various unecessary options from the kernel (framebuffer console support, ACPI, agpgart). My fstab uses these settings to mount the partition: /dev/hda6 / reiserfs noatime,notail 0 0 Other people appear to have this problem with reiserfs in this forum thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=46332&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 I believe one person mentioned they were able to use 2.5.67-mm1 with a reiserfs root partition successfully, so I suppose it is possible that the error might not be directly linked to reiserfs. I hope I have included all the necessary information, also I was told on the forums that I should post a report here even if the bug is part of the kernel and not Gentoo's packaging of it, please excuse this posting if I was wrong.
I have the same exactly problem with ReiserFS! Since it semms that not all the people with REiserFS, I think that we can delimit it if we explain one by one our cases. I think that post my .config isn't needed, if it's only mention and I'll post it. My emerge info is: # emerge info Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.1, glibc-2.3.1-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex bonobo svga tcltk java guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt kde motif opengl mozilla gphoto2 ldap cdr scanner" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
mm-sources is not patched nor maintained by gentoo. reports bugs to the linux kernel mailing list. Jay
