Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2001 16:48:43 +0300 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.15-pre1: "bogus" message with reiserfs root and other weirdness |
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Christian Bornträger 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. > >diff -urN linux/fs/fat/inode.c linux-new/fs/fat/inode.c >--- linux/fs/fat/inode.c Thu Oct 25 09:02:26 2001 >+++ linux-new/fs/fat/inode.c Wed Nov 21 21:28:49 2001 >@@ -609,7 +609,8 @@ > CF_LE_W(get_unaligned((unsigned short *) &b->sector_size)); > if (!logical_sector_size > || (logical_sector_size & (logical_sector_size - 1))) { >- printk("FAT: bogus logical sector size %d\n", >+ if (!silent) >+ printk("FAT: bogus logical sector size %d\n", > logical_sector_size); > brelse(bh); > goto out_invalid; >@@ -618,7 +619,8 @@ > sbi->cluster_size = b->cluster_size; > if (!sbi->cluster_size > || (sbi->cluster_size & (sbi->cluster_size - 1))) { >- printk("FAT: bogus cluster size %d\n", sbi->cluster_size); >+ if (!silent) >+ printk("FAT: bogus cluster size %d\n", sbi->cluster_size); > brelse(bh); > goto out_invalid; > } > > How about putting fat last in the list, and having it say something more like "FAT: bogus cluster size, perhaps XXX is not a FAT partition"
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