Re: this is more interesting ...

Brian Strand (bstrand@switchmanagement.com)
Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:12:34 -0800


Davide Libenzi wrote:

>Booting my machine with vanilla 2.5.3-pre1 ( obsiously with corrected
>headers inclusion fix ) i've got and error from UMSDOS layer reporting a
>failing msdos_read_super() ( at boot ) and a panic about a failure to
>mount root. The interesting thing is that i do not have any msdos mounts,
>least of all root.
>
This might be the problem with msdos_read_super mistaking a reiserfs
superblock for a FAT superblock, as discussed in a lkml thread starting
Jan 13 14:38 -0800 with subject "Boot failure: msdos pushes in front of
reiserfs" from Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>.

Regards,
Brian

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