Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:28:57 -0800 (PST) From: Charlie Roots <osiris2002@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Yesterday's CVSUP HATES mount_msdosfs ?? Message-ID: <19980106222857.26813.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com>
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Hi All SysAdmins, FreeBSD Developers, Yesterday's '6-jan-98' Kernel does not boot properly if I use an entry in /etc/fstab to mount and msdos file system, and enters 'kernel debug' mode. I had some difficult time to bootup the 'ONLY' machine I have again. What made it worse that I thought since make world and the new kernel compile went smoothly, I removed reduntant kernel.* backups (FATAL MISTAKE). The question, Is there a new change in mount_msdos code that is causing this, or should I mount VFAT (aka FAT32, WIN95) partitions using another 'unknown to me' command ? Or Am I doing anything else wrong. It worths mentioning that this disaster did not go unevetful, as fsck was saying it is removing some directories from the /usr/obj, /usr/gnats/.. Fortunately I made some backups lately and can restore the /src, and other personal folders to the state before the event, one problem though, every thing is on the VFAT partition. Please consider helping me ASAP, should I CVSUP again today to correct, or restore the /usr/src to previous state and recompile the whole system, until the code stabilizes. I'll be online for the next couple of hours or so, so please send an answer, if any available so I can cleanly get away with the crash. More info about the problem: When I boot the kernel drops into kernel debug mode, and mentions an address where the trouble is, I don't know enough knowledge to give more info, but I panic out of kernel debug, reboot, and hit CTRL-C before the system tries to mount the dreaded msdos file system, then disable the /etc/fstab entry, reboot and everything is OK. Thanks, now I have a lost+found thing. Greetings == MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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