Re: boot says wrong fs type but still works - worrying!

[Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>]

On 31 Mar 2004, Adam Aube wrote:
> Anthony Campbell wrote:
> 
> > On booting, I get a message about "wrong fs type, bad superblock..."
> > However, everything appears to work normally afterwards.
> 
> Are you using a custom kernel? Does your kernel have tmpfs
> support? /etc/init.d/mountkernfs tries to mount a tmpfs partition
> on /dev/shm on boot - if your kernel lacks tmpfs support, you'll get that
> error message.
> 
> I get these same messages for exactly this reason - I'm using a custom
> kernel without tmpfs support.
> 
> Adam
> 
> 
> --

Thanks indeed for this; yes, this does explain the situation.

Excellent!

Anthony

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