Re: Error messages during boot [SOLVED]

[NuncaSeSabe]

Hi all,

I just installed Salix 13.1 (full install) on a laptop and it's working fine. However, during boot I get the following error messages:

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EXT3-fs (sda1): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240)
EXT2-fs (sda1): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (244)

I checked my /etc/fstab and it looks ok:

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/dev/sda2        swap             swap        defaults         0   0
/dev/sda1        /                ext4        defaults,noatime 1   1
#/dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom       auto        noauto,owner,ro  0   0
/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,users,rw,umask=00 0   0
devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620   0   0
proc             /proc            proc        defaults         0   0
tmpfs            /dev/shm         tmpfs       defaults         0   0

Any idea why I'm getting these error messages? What do they mean? I searched in this forum + google and it looks like other users get the same error messages but I did not find any answer on how to fix the problem.

Thanks for your help in advance!

[gapan]

Don't worry about them. The system first tries to mount the ext4 partition as ext3 and understands that it isn't actually ext3, then it tries ext2 with the same results and then mounts successfully as ext4.

[NuncaSeSabe]

ok *IGNORED*

Thanks for your quick response!

[Shador]

If you'd really want to get rid of that message, though it actually is no problem, you can try this bootoption set to ext4:
http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Document ... s.txt#2222

[NuncaSeSabe]

Thanks Shador.

I tried adding "rootfstype=ext4" to my lilo.conf
but the error messages remain.

My lilo.conf now reads:

append="quiet vt.default_utf8=1 rootfstype=ext4"
boot = /dev/sda
[...]

But as it's no real problem...