From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) Subject: Re: EXT2FS FAQ (Was Re: A ton of questions) Date: 30 Mar 1993 19:49:49 GMT
>>: When Linux boots, it tries to mount the root file system using the
>>: different file system types :
>>: - it first tries to mount / as a minix file system, discovers that it
>>: is not a minix fs and displays the first error message,
>>: - then it tries to mount / as an extended file system, discovers that
>>: it is not an extended fs and displays the second error message.
>>
>>You can change the order of the file_systems array in
>>/usr/src/linux/fs/filesystems.c
>>To avoid this if you really want to.
> It would be nice, if you could set the root filesystem type with
> setroot. The kernel would try to mount that type first, but if that
> failed, cycle through all the fs's like currently.
> This would eliminate the extraneous warnings with quite small
> modifications to the kernel and setroot.
There are patches in /pub/linux/Incoming/mount-patches.cd on
sunsite.unc.edu which remove these extraeneous messages on mount_root,
replacing them with a tidy "VFS: Mounted root (ext filesystem)." or
similar. They also clear up the magic-match failure messages when you
explicitly try to mount the wrong file system.
I hope they may appear officially in linux 0.99pl8.
Cheers,
Stephen Tweedie.