A few startup problems

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 02:12:51PM -0400, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:

> 1. I have formated my root partition as reiserfs, and now during boot-up
> I get VFS error cannot find ext3 file system on sda1 right before
> services begin to start. I understand that ext3 is the default, but
> since installer seems to support alternative file systems, I think this
> error shouldn't come up.

It's harmless; ignore it.

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2100

> 2. PCI hotplug modules generate a lot of error messages while loading on
> both my systems. I was under the impression, that ubuntu was a more of a
> desktop oriented system, and PCI hotplug is more of a server technology,
> should these modules be blacklisted in hotplug blacklist file?

Same story.

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1869

> 3. For whatever reason, udev/hotplug doesn't auto-load nvidia module,
> although I have a rather simple nVidia FX 5200 Ultra. I added it
> to /etc/modules, but I think that shouldn't be a necessary step. 

The nvidia-glx-config script does this automatically for you.

> Thank you. I will be looking for more interesting things. BTW, I saw
> splash flag in the grub config file, but there are no splash related
> utilities anywhere, the usplash is listed on Wiki as being part of
> Warty, but obviously it is not making it, is splash gonna be a part of
> Hoary?

Yes.

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 - mdz