From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) Subject: Re: NFS: problem: cannot execute from mounted partitions Date: 14 Jan 1993 08:59:36 GMT
Operator (Phil/Dylan) (root@slave.uwe.ac.uk) wrote:
: let me guess,... ugh, you hada an sls release, and your root partition is
: an extended FS (ext) yes? I was under the impression that the kernel had to
: know that it's root FS would be a specific type though where this is defined
: i don't know. (and i bet that i'm wrong too,.. i nearly always am)
The kernal trys to mount root as minix, extended, msdos. In that order
by default. Thus producing an error message for the minix type, if the
actuall type is exended, then sucessfully mounting.
Maybe there could be some sort of auto filesystem detect could be implimented
:
: Phil
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