Bug#514263: thinks that my ext2 root filesystem is fat

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Donnerstag, den 05.02.2009, 14:19 -0500 schrieb Joey Hess:

Hello,

> If I type root or root (hd0,1), it says "FAT filesystem",
> and ls fails to show any files.
> 
> This laptop is a dell mini 9, the only disk is a SSD, which
> is partitioned as follows:
> 
> Command (m for help): p

hm maybe something simliar as in #505137
Could you please show the output of hexdump -Cn 512 /dev/hda1?
Maybe you had a fat filesystem and mkfs.ext2 didn't overwrite the first
512 bytes.
Else I don't have a clue what the problem could be.

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Felix Zielcke