Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-xfs); Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:16:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.mnsu.edu (Mail.MNSU.EDU [134.29.1.12]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id h0EMGU3v019552 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:16:31 -0800 Received: from mnsu.edu (j3gum-3.MNSU.EDU [134.29.1.30]) by mail.mnsu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA11920; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:22:23 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3E248C8B.9020908@mnsu.edu> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:17:47 -0600 From: "Jeffrey E. Hundstad" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Wedgwood CC: Lucien Meyers , linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: xfs fails as / with Debian GNU/Linux 2.4.18-smp - 2nd post References: <20030114221139.GA4264@f00f.org> In-Reply-To: <20030114221139.GA4264@f00f.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-archive-position: 2309 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: jeffrey.hundstad@mnsu.edu Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-xfs Content-Length: 970 Lines: 44 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: > > > >>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! >> >> > >fatfs (or similar) is buggy/broken > >if fatfs can't mount the filesystem it should give-up and let the next >filesystem try... > > > --cw > > > >