On 23 Jul 2015 02:31, <[email protected]> wrote: > > My new installation is running well, in particular it boots fine. > However the grub2-mkconfig seems odd. > > It finds linux (all kernels) and the stub windows partition. But then I > get messages that both ext4-fs and FAT-fs have trouble with /dev/sda4, > which is the extended partition. Perhaps the fact that the windows > partitions sda[23] don't really have windows on them yet is part of the > answer?? > > Has anyone else seen something like this? > > thanks, > allan >
Maybe there was another partition on the disk around that location before and the file system signature is still lurking around? Run `wipefs /dev/sda4`, that will show you which signatures are there.

