On 20 January 2015 at 00:00, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> Alexey Orishko wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Richard Melville >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Are you sure that the USB flash drive isn't formatted with NTFS? If not, >>> which file system is on it? If it is, then maybe you haven't enabled >>> NTFS >>> in your kernel. >>> >> >> Yes, I'm. I did format it as stated above. It is USB boot disk, where the >> first >> partition code (in gdisk) is EF02 and first partition is not formatted >> at all, while >> partition 2 is ext2 and part3 - etx4. >> >> I'm not sure why you are referring to /dev/sda when the flash drive >>> appears >>> to be /dev/sde. >>> >> I'm not referring to /dev/sda, it is a *linux warning message* which >> is printed on a console. >> >> Also, I'm not sure why you need NTFS unless a version of >>> Windows is installed somewhere, or you need to read an NTFS formatted >>> device. >>> >> I do not need NTFS. >> I'll try to clarify my question: I don't want Linux to try mounting >> unformatted >> EF02 partition as NTFS (which is a bad guess on linux part). >> Is there any way to prevent that? >> > > The only partition that is mounted during boot is the one specified on the > linux command line with root=whatever. Later, the only partitions mounted > are those specified in /etc/fstab. > > I suspect the output of 'NTFS signature is missing' is in the UEFI > firmware. > > -- Bruce It's a continuing problem with a proprietary BIOS; you have to take what's given and can do very little about it. Sometimes EFI can be toggled on or off in the BIOS. Sometimes it makes no difference one way or the other. Richard
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