Re: Unable to mount root & Problems with Woody

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>]

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On Fri, 2003-02-21 21:15:23 +1100, Lewis Shobbrook <lshobbrook@fasttrack.net.au>
wrote in message <84BB6E1F4E011742AFB186D469FDEA9A015BDD@fastterminal.fasttrack.net.au>:

> /mnt/md0 device resulted in failure because nodes in the dev directory
> would never copy onto the mdX filesystem. Out of frustration I updated

Then you did the copy wrong. Use tar for it, one source partition at a
time. Like this:

(let /usr be on it's own partition)

	cd /usr
	tar cpf - --numeric-owner --one-file-system | \
		(cd /mnt/new/usr && tar xpf - --numeric-owner; ) 

> filesystem,  and all works like a charm.  The raidtools versions are
> both 0.90.200109 for woody and Testing, so the source of the woody woes
> must lay a little deeper, perhaps the raidtools dependencies weren't as
> compatible with woody or mke2fs is somehow different. Anyway hope this
> info helps someone.

With a bit of luck, newer fileutils managed to get the device nodes
right whilst you've not given appropriate parameters to 'cp'?!

> RE; Unable to mount -- Appologies ! I think the mounting trouble with
> ...
> 
> EXT2-fs: md(9.0): couldn't mount because of unsupported optional
> features (fff80000).

Seems you try to mount an unclean ext3 filesystem with ext2 drivers...

> cramfs: wrong magic
> Md: swapper(pid 1) used obsolete MD ioctl, upgrade your software to use
> new ictls. 
> Kernel Panic. 
> 
> ... was likely fstab pointing to /dev/hda1 with lilo.ocnf root=/dev/md0.

That seems to be an ext2 <-> ext3 problem...

MfG, JBG

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