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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:58:30 +0300 (MSK)
From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
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Subject: 4-stable bug: comconsole and boot -a option
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Dear colleagues,

I found very strange bug. Actually, bug was introduced at running system with
vinum root, when I did not succeed in mounting explicit root via `boot -a'
prompt. I did a bit of research, and found that there is certainly a bug when
comconsole is enabled:

ad0: 7339MB <QUANTUM FIREBALL EL7.6A> [15907/15/63] at ata0-master UDMA33

Manual root filesystem specification:
  <fstype>:<device>  Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
                       eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
  ?                  List valid disk boot devices
  <empty line>       Abort manual input

mountroot> ufs:/dev/ad0s1e
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a

Look at two last lines. Input asked at vfs_mountroot_ask() did not used,
possibly because kern/vfs_conf.c:gets() dit not actually read the input from
comconsole. However, I'm not kernel hacker and looking at kern/tty_cons.c
scares me a bit :)

Should I file a PR for this?


Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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