From: smallm@panix.com   
      
   Jimmy Johnson  writes:   
      
   > On 8/5/21 12:54 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote:   
   >   
   >> The btrfs file system is made. The slackware dvd iso is dated   
   >> 8/5/21, I wrote it to a flash drive and I'm in the installer   
   >> now. It's installing now, I see no changes in the installer, it did   
   >> identify my btrfs partition where I'm doing the install. So far it's   
   >> looking good, I'll keep you updated.   
   >   
   > It's looking like I can't do this.   
   > My grub is using a older kernel and can't mount btrfs. I don't know if   
   > I can update the kernel on sda1 and the slack btrfs install is on   
   > sda7, any advise or help?   
      
   Grub can boot kernels off of a btrfs system. It has modules for   
   that. There should have been an insmod line in your boot entry where you   
   tell Grub to load the btrfs grub module, similar to how you might have   
   had one to load its ext2 module. Then you would have needed the linux   
   btrfs module loaded into linux at initrd time so it can mount root from   
   btrfs.   
      
   It does work. I have a debian system system set up this way. In fact I   
   plan to install Slackware 15 into that same btrfs filesystem somehow   
   without reinitializing it, with slackware root being mounted from a   
   btrfs subvolume while keeping the existing debian on the same filesystem   
   intact and also bootable. I may be too optimistic, but I don't see any   
   of this having much to do with Slackware. It should be happy with   
   whatever filesystem I give it, the problem being between me and   
   grub/btrfs. Should be no problem, right?   
      
   - Mike Sm.   
      
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