Bug#142481: boot-floppies: tries to mount partition as XFS even after reinitialisation

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

#include <hallo.h>
Michael Stone wrote on Fri Apr 12, 2002 um 07:14:13AM:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 01:08:02AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > See subject. mke2fs and mkreiserfs do not touch the first 100 bytes of
> > the partition, but exactly this area (first 4 chars) is used to detect
> > the XFS filesystem. 
> 
> Yes. Unfortunately XFS is the only (AFAIK) linux filesystem that doesn't
> support a boot sector at the front of the partition. (For compatability
> with IRIX, which has a sensible boot loader.)

Do we have a FAQ for typical installation problems? Probably we should
add a part like:

Q: I formated my old XFS partition as Reiserfs (or Ext2/3), but the
installer refuses to mount it, why?
A: Go to the second console and remove rests of XFS manually:

Alt-F2
Enter
echo "    " > /dev/my_partition

Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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<netzwurm> was is eigentlich so geil an grub?
<formorer> grub bootet alles was nicht schnell genug wegläuft
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