Re: Wrong filesystem for resc1440.bin
Christian Ericsson wrote:
>
> Hello Nathan,
>
> It worked! The Debian installer started as you said it would do. But, when
> it comes to the section: "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules", the
> dbootstrap is unable to mount the Rescue Floppy.
> The error message I get is:
>
> Mount /dev/loop0 (type ext2) on /floppy: wrong filesystem type, or bad
> superblock on/dev/loop0
> Unable to mount the Rescue Floppy.
>
> It seems like the dbootstrap program assume that the Rescue Floppy has an
> ext2 filesystem. I tried to mount the resc1440.bin file with:
This is a known bug or at least should be. Also present in x86. The
disks are minix, but they try to mount ext2. And ext2 isn't in the
kernel. There should be a bug on this assigned to boot-floppies. If it's
closed, it looks like you need to file another bug. I wish I still had
the original bug# for you to reference.
-prj
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