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From: Brian Strand <bstrand@switchmanagement.com>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: this is more interesting ...
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:12:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C45ECC2.6090208@switchmanagement.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.40.0201151752190.940-100000@blue1.dev.mcafeelabs.com>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-16 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-16  1:55 this is more interesting Davide Libenzi
2002-01-16 21:12 ` Brian Strand [this message]
2002-01-16 23:08   ` Davide Libenzi

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