Re: 2.4.15-pre1: "bogus" message with reiserfs root and other weirdness

OGAWA Hirofumi (hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp)
Tue, 27 Nov 2001 02:54:54 +0900


Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> writes:

> On 27 Nov 2001, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
>
> > davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>
> Actually the original poster used "magic" and I didn't quibble, but I
> believe you're right. I just noted that it is better to check to see if
> the filesystem is FAT before reporting the error message. Obviously this
> can be done, since you don't get the message with FAT as a module, I just
> haven't looked to see if the check is in the module or the kernel before
> even loading the FAT module.

Yes. You can't use the module before you mounted the root filesystem.
This is a reason for not seeing an error message.

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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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