From: rassilon@grits.ai.mit.edu (Brian Preble) Subject: Filesystem trouble Date: 14 Mar 1993 02:10:42 GMT
I recently installed the SLS release of Linux. All appeared
to go smoothly until I booted after installation. I received
the following error messages:
Minix-fs: magic match failure (or something like that)
EXT-fs: magic match failure
EXT2-FS: Warning: using non-valid partition
Linux appears to be working ok (I'm using it to send this message)
but these errors and warnings worry me. Can someone help a new
Linux user?
Almost forgot, I'm running on a 486/33DX with 16Mb of RAM.
I created a 100Mb extended Linux partition (the default
wouldn't handle more than 64Mb) and used "mke2fs" to create
the filesystem. Was I supposed to use mkfs? The directions
are far from clear.
Thanks in advance,
-- Rassilon