Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:56:13 -0500 | Subject | Re: 2.4.15-pre1: "bogus" message with reiserfs root and other weirdness | From | (bill davidsen) |
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In article <E166e8A-0000t2-00@mrvdom02.schlund.de> linux-kernel@borntraeger.net wrote: | > > Machine booted ok and everything seemed to be ok, but i noticed a few | > > weird messages in boot messages right before mounting the root-partition: | > > FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 | > > FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 | > When the kernel is booting, it doesn't know the filesystem type of the | > root fs, so it tries to mount the root device using all of the compiled-in | > fs drivers, in the order they are listed in fs/Makefile.in. | > It appears that the fat driver doesn't even check for a magic when it | > starts trying to mount the filesystem, so it proceeds directly to | | To be complete we should also apply this patch.
To be totally honest I think this is the wrong way to go. Like masking the symptoms instead of treating the disease. The problem is that the FAT driver seems to not check f/s type before claiming a f/s as its own. The better solution is to put in a check before going forward with using the f/s as FAT.
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