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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:48:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.15-pre1:  "bogus" message with reiserfs root and other weirdness
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:

> 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.

What? Of course you can! That's what initd files are for ;-) 

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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