Resizing Reiser

[Brian Densmore]

Not to offer hindsight, but something to consider next time.
Whenever I run potentially destructive operations in Linux,
I do one at a time and reboot in between each to be able to 
backtrack mistakes. I also do a backup before starting.
Generally I backup the /home, /etc and /var/local directories
as they are the ones where I have most of the configurations,
data and intranet stuff located.

That said, I'd also recommend switching from using lilo to grub.
Grub may be a bit more difficult to get used to setting up, but
it is much easier to maintain.

A question when booting how many lewtters of lilo appear on the 
screen? 
If all 4 lilo letters appear it is not the boot loader, but
the kernel that is giving you problems. If you don't see any of the
letters or only 1,2, or 3 then the bootloader is having problems.
Each one has a particular meaning. I'd have to look it up though.
Of course, you are right you should rerun lilo, just for sanity.
Even though I would expect lilo to read the partition table to find
the locations, and the partition table certainly didn't move.

A very strange result you have there, so keep us posted. 

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Hutchins
> 
> ...
> Unfortunately, when I boot (from hda1), I get "loading 
> Linux", then return to 
> the BIOS.  Curiously, I have a non-booting kernel there too, 
> and when I load 
> it I get a lot more of a boot, right up to "unable to load 
> filesystem", which 
> is where it always panicked before.
> 
> This tells me that it may be the system map that's no-longer 
> valid, and that I 
> might be able to either re-run lilo, or re-compile the 
> original kernel using 
> the gentoo install docs as a guideline.  We'll see what happens.
> 
> Essentially, while the tools I found claim to have resized the reiser 
> partition successfully, they left corruption in their wake 
> and made the 
> system unbootable.  YMMV.
>