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- From: apl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ari P Laakkonen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Extended FS -> "magic match failed"
- Date: 6 Nov 1992 18:38:52 GMT
- Organization: Department Of Computing, Imperial College, London UK
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- In article <chans.721065175@marsh>, chans@cs.curtin.edu.au (Sean Chan) writes:
- |> I installed Linux on my hard drive as Linux Extended FS (Partition ID
- |> 83), with the SLS distribution. After the installation was complete, I
- |> rebooted...and it came up with "magic match failed". Other than that
- |> statement, Linux works fine. I can login, etc.
- |>
- |> Oh, yes, when I do a fsck /dev/hda2 it comes up with a "bad magic number
- |> in super-block". What does this mean?? Can anyone shed some light here??
- |>
- |> Sean
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- I think this is because the kernel assumes that the root partition is a
- minix partition.
- You could try to have a really minimalist minix root partition and then use
- another partition with an ext fs on it for the bulk of your files.
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- Ari
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