Re: xfs fails as / with Debian GNU/Linux 2.4.18-smp - 2nd post

["Jeffrey E. Hundstad" <jeffrey.hundstad@mnsu.edu>]

I've had a similar problem with floppies when I have the fstab set to 
mount type=auto.  It happens when I have a floppy with an ms-dos 
filesystem that then gets formatted with ext2.  Apparently auto sees 
enough of the ms-dos filesystem to assume incorrectly that it is 
ms-dos.  I've gotten around this by dd'ing a few sectors of /dev/zero to 
the floppy, before putting a different filesystem on in.

BTW: could you also get around your problem by putting ms-dos fs in as a 
module?

--
jeffrey hundstad

Chris Wedgwood wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:58:31PM +0100, Lucien Meyers wrote:
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>>FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
>>FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
>>invalid operand: 0000
>>CPU:
>>EIP:
>>EFLAGS:
>>Process swapper
>>Call trace:
>>Code:
>><0> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
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>fatfs (or similar) is buggy/broken
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>if fatfs can't mount the filesystem it should give-up and let the next
>filesystem try...
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>  --cw
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