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   From: java@evij.com.invalid   
      
   On 2025-06-02 13:44, Java Jive wrote:   
   >   
   >> Searching on "Magic mismatch, very weird" comes up with some threads.   
   >> One is   
   >> hardware failure, the other is about using a non-1k blocksize with   
   >> (old) mke2fs   
   >> and a 2007-era ramdisk implementation that doesn't support other than 1k:   
   >> https://sourceforge.net/p/e2fsprogs/bugs/175/#b0df   
   >>   
   >> Perhaps you could try -b1024 on the mkfs.ext2 command?  Or experiment   
   >> with   
   >> other blocksizes?   
   >   
   > Thanks, may try that later this afternoon,   
      
   And it worked, adding the -b1024 parameter makes my copying manually the   
   original procedure work!  Thanks for that.   
      
   I'm making some progress now, I've managed to clean up Zyxel's original   
   scripts somewhat, the originals gave lots of spurious errors in 'dmesg'.   
     However, the fundamental plan, of doing an automatic reboot one time   
   only if no storage is detected, didn't work from 'init', I think because   
   'init' can not be broken into, apparently not even programmatically.   
   The 'Rebooting' message is displayed, but no reboot actually occurs.   
      
   So I tried moving that bit of code to rcS, but I still can't get it to   
   reboot.  Again all the messages are correctly displayed, but no reboot   
   actually occurs.   
      
   Still the above problem has been solved thanks to your help, much obliged.   
      
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