> Does it help by the way? > > It is safe, but it breaks semantic (some getting-started-with-xxx-plugin > docs > will need to be edited) > > >then gentoo init / baselayout wouldn't halt at printing plugins & omitting > >checkfs, thus all other following services/tasks > > Success ! :D Yes it defnitely does now I'm finally able to boot it with: root=/dev/sda2 ro elevator=deadline vga=794 video=vesafb,ywrap,mtrr whereas previously I needed root=/dev/sda2 rw elevator=deadline vga=794 video=vesafb,ywrap,mtrr (mark the rw !) here is the updated & working patch: http://pastebin.ch/72 I hope there's not much additional work fixing syntax for you ... fyi: I'm using reiser4 with cryptcompress and lzo1 right now (but with default file plugin it should be the same) Regards Mat - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html