Message when mounting ext4 boot partition, but works.

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Saturday 21 November 2009 09:06, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> I just did a clean install of Fedora 12, and did a remote backup of the 
> system. I change the grub.conf to default to my g4l option which uses 
> busybox. After it boots, I can remotely access it and mount the boot partition 
> to reset the grub to boot from the default kernel before doing the image 
> backup. Seems Fedora 12 now creates the boot partition as ext4 instead of 
> the older ext2? 
> 
> No problem with mounting the ext4 partition, but it does show the following 
> message.

... when you run what command exacty?

> NTFS signature is missing.
> Failed to mount '/dev/hda6': Invalid argument
> The device '/dev/hda6' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
> Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
> partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
> NTFS signature is missing.
> Failed to mount '/dev/hda6': Invalid argument
> The device '/dev/hda6' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
> Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
> partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
> 
> Not sure if I double copied the above or if it happened that way. The partition 
> does get mounted correctly, so not sure why the above message appears? It 
> is only cosmetic.
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