2002-01-16 01:49:48

by Davide Libenzi

Subject: this is more interesting ...

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.



- Davide

2002-01-16 21:14:52

by Brian Strand

Subject: Re: this is more interesting ...

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 <[email protected]>.

Regards,
Brian

2002-01-16 23:03:13

by Davide Libenzi

Subject: Re: this is more interesting ...

On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Brian Strand wrote:

> 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 <[email protected]>.

I'll look into, thanks.
Linus, if something that solves this shows up let me know ...



- Davide