Bug#362631: linux-image-2.6.16-1: fails to mount root device

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

reassign 362631 klibc-utils
retitle 362631 fstype recognises ext3 as lvm2
stop

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, C. Dominik Bódi wrote:
> 
> I tried something in the rescue shell: I mounted /dev/hda8 to /root manually 
> using the following command:
> mount -t ext3 /dev/hda8 /root

gone to an online debugging irc debugging session
# /usr/lib/klibc/bin/fstype < /dev/hda8
FSTYPE=lvm2
FSSIZE=0

the partition was used as lvm2 previously but is now an ext3 root.

fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80060424192 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9733 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        2432    19535008+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            2433        9733    58645282+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5            2433        4864    19535008+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda6            4865        4927      506016   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda7            4928        4957      240943+  83  Linux
/dev/hda8            4958        9733    38363188+  83  Linux
 
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maks