"[tony.pattison]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6293
>
>            Summary: Install programs incorrectly cope with reiserfs to Ext3
>                     in /etc/fstab
>            Product: mandrake-release
>            Version: 9.2-0.1mdk
>           Platform: PC
>         OS/Version: All
>             Status: UNCONFIRMED
>           Severity: normal
>           Priority: P2
>          Component: mandrake-release
>         AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>         ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> If, as I had, you install 9.2 onto an existing partion that has the Reiserfs on
> it, but decide to overwrite this with Ext3, during the install, the file
> /etc/fstab is setup incorrectly. The partion in question is given the "notail"
> option in /etc/fstab , this causes Linux to be unable to mount the Ext3 partion
> and the boot fails.
>
> My way round this was to boot using an exiting copy of Linux and amend
> /etc/fstab by hand, before rebooting, successfully, into Mandrake 9.2

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