Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:14:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:13:35 -0500 Received: from adsl-64-164-18-186.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([64.164.18.186]:43071 "HELO switchmanagement.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:12:41 -0500 Message-ID: <3C45ECC2.6090208@switchmanagement.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:12:34 -0800 From: Brian Strand Organization: Switch Management User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Davide Libenzi CC: Linus Torvalds , lkml Subject: Re: this is more interesting ... In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 . Regards, Brian - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/