Re: Debian Install CD doesn't recognize my hard drive
Hadar Pedhazur wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
>
>> Surely you _don't_ have a Minix filesystem (at least, iirc, there's a
>> plan to drop support for it, so I doubt it has much use), so you need
>> to look at /etc/fstab, /etc/mtab, and possibly your boot loader to
>> figure out why it thinks it should be mounting Minix.
That seemed extremely strange to me as well. That said, I have a strong
suspicion where this came from. I originally booted from a "freedos"
floppy, to wipe out the drive with fdisk from my original Xandros
install, which the Debian CD couldn't install to. Perhaps that left the
partition marked as a Minix one. Still, the 2.4.22 kernel had no trouble
booting it.
/etc/fstab looked fine (I looked at it a few times), but never peeked at
/etc/mtab. Unfortunately, I decided to blow the whole thing away anyway.
I was curious as to whether it was the fact that Xandros installed
reiserfs by default that was causing the 2.6.4 kernel any problems.
I installed Sarge this week and all my partitions are ReiserFS, and no
problem there, though I do get some of those same mount errors on my
boot. So I looked at my dmesg output and see this interesting detail:
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [PTBL] [4864/255/63] p1 p2 p3 p4 <
p5 p6 p7 p8 >
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide0(3,2).
VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,2).
Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
FAT: Bogus logical sector size 0
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:02.
reiserfs: found...
Bingo! That's an attempt to load a file system as 'auto'. Now, I
haven't figured out what's doing it, but it should be simple enough to
figure out where it's happening and force it to mount a reiserfs system
first. I expect that you're exactly right about the partition being
guessed to be Minix because of the way you created it.
derek
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