On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 03:20:12PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 02:01:24PM +0200, Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 07:07:59AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > > Well, hfs and hfs+ are two separate modules, are you sure both of them > > > are compiled or loadable/loaded for your kernel ? > > I guess they are in the standard kernel. If they were not the message > > should be different. > > Well, look in /boot/config-2.6.6-1-686 or something such, grep for > HFSPLUS. CONFIG_HFS_FS=m CONFIG_HFSPLUS_FS=m > > > > Did this work with a 2.4 kernel ? Have you tested the userland hfstools ? > > The userland hfstools cannot work sice they only understand hfs. > > > > The other tools for hfsplus do not work. They can identify the > > filesystem and "mount" it but they cannot perform anything on it. > > > > I installed a 2.4 kernel and it can mount the partition and I see some > > reasonable content on it. But it cannot mount my partitions specified in > > Some reasonable content ? Is all there, or are some parts missing ? I see something that looks like the filesystem I am expecting. I did not exlore it much as it is 20GB of cruft and the only tool I had was the shell runnig as init. If I mounted it as HFS I would get about three files, one named "Where are all my files gone ?" or something like that :) > > > fstab, I can only boot it with init=/bin/sh. > > Huh ? You are trying to boot on a hfsplus filesystem ? Of course not. But something on my system is broken, preventing the init to work properly with 2.4 Debian kernels.
Thanks Michal Suchanek

