On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 09:09, Per Jessen wrote: > Alright, then it's getting a bit more complicated - more than I can > deal with. Maybe some of the others here can help out. I think there's > a file system magic number or somesuch that the kernel uses to identify > the file system, maybe this somehow got corrupted? But I'm really making > wild guesses here ...
For historical reasons, jfs doesn't use the first 64 sectors of the partition. Instead it stores its superblock at offset 64*512. mkfs.jfs zeros the first 32K of the volume. I'm pretty sure that msdos file systems store their equivalent to the superblock in the first sector. Normally, this is zero for jfs, but it sounds like you may have something there that msdos recognizes. I have no idea how that could have happened. Is it possible to boot from that partition with the kernel parameter "rootfstype=jfs"? Thanks, Shaggy -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/mailman/listinfo/jfs-discussion
