On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:41:54PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 13:57, Matt Kraai wrote: > > Package: boot-floppies > > Version: N/A; reported 2002-03-04 > > > > The boot-floppies do not permit a /boot partition to be > > mounted. They complain that its file system is not supported by > > the boot loader. > > Ok. Here's my suggested patch. It is not yet tested, but it *should* > work. I think. No. The file system must be mounted for is_fstype, and hence verify_powerpc_mount, to work correctly. Since it isn't mounted, is_fstype always returns false, so verify_powerpc_mount always decides that the /boot partition file system is not supported. Matt
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