Gene,
 You might try recompiling the kernel with reiserfs or ext3 built in.
Not as a module. It is almost certainly a module now (especially if it
is the original kernel), and as such will be in the modules file in ...
you guessed it, /boot. that is why you are having trouble. This is why I
use ext2 for the /boot partition and make it a read-only filesystem.

HTH, 
Brian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Dascher [mailto:gedascher@multiservice.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 8:24 AM
> To: Kclug
> Subject: RE: mandrake
> 
> 
> Mandrake 8.2 is in beta, according to an article on slashdot. 
>  Apparently,
> you'll be able to install it as small as 65MB!  I like 
> Mandrake, except for
> one problem that I keep having.  I have installed 8.0 and 8.1 
> on a Dell
> Inspiron laptop aith very few modifications.  The problem I 
> seem to have is
> that somehow, in the normal usage of the laptop (I have a 
> dual-boot config
> with Win98), it looses its ability to mount the /boot 
> partition!  The laptop
> boots just fine in Linux, but when it is mounting the 
> different partitions,
> it says it can't mount /dev/hda2 as /boot because the 
> filesystem does not
> exist.  I first used ReiserFS, and then switched to EXT3, but it still
> happens.  I don't know if it is because I have SuspendToDisk 
> enabled or
> what, but I'm confused.  I think I will try the Gentoo or 
> LinuxFromScratch
> this time to try and streamline the system more.
> 
> Gene
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net
> > [mailto:owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of 
> Jonathan Hutchins
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 5:24 PM
> > To: Kclug
> > Subject: RE: mandrake
> >
> >
> > On top of the various problems, there hasn't been any significant
> > update to
> > 8.1 since it came out in September.
> >
> > Then again, RedHat is still running 7.2.
> >
> > How recent is the latest Debian?  SuSE?
> >
> >
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