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- From: probreak@wyatt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: magic match failed --> what does it mean?
- Date: 5 Nov 1992 20:44:31 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- mdgauthi@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Mad Dog) writes:
-
- >Everytime I boot to Linux (using a floppy boot for a hard disk root partition )
- >I see the message "magic matched failed" in the intial messages. I can't seem
- >to find any harm caused by this but it doesn't sound positive either. (ps -I
- >am also using the exfs and MCC interim release with the kernel unrecompiled)
-
- >-Matt Gauthier
- >mdgauthi@rodan.acs.syr.edu
-
- From what I was told about this, it is harmless like you think.
- What the kernel does it to test the root file system against the various
- type supported in the kernel. When the minix test fails because you are
- using an extfs it will print the magic match failed message. I suppose
- that if you used an msdos file system as a root file system that you
- would get two of these messages.
-
- James
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