Bug#336566: yaird error: error running modprobe auto (fatal) when installing linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7
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On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 13:04:54 +0100
Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 12:41:48PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 09:11:03 +0100
> > Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> >
> > > I kind of suspect that your root filesystem has no explicit
> > > filesystem choice, but auto, so changing this auto to ext3 or
> > > whatever your filesystem is should solve the problem.
> >
> >
> > I believe so too. But just for the record: avoiding "auto" is just a
> > workaround, not a bugfix: yaird really should support both "auto"
> > and "ext3,ext2".
>
> How do you plan to work around auto ? Does yaird have some kind of
> filesystem probing ? Or would you benefit maybe from a small
> libparted program that does just that ?
First step would be to investigate what "auto" actually means. I
suspect it is a (Debian-specific?) hack related to ext2/ext3, and not
something expected to globally support all Linux filesystems available.
- Jonas
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