From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 19 12:55:15 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA05641 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 12:55:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA05636 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 12:55:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id MAA08980 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 12:53:01 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA13558; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 21:16:26 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA22321; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 21:16:20 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id VAA04805; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 21:10:46 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512192010.VAA04805@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: General comments on 2.1 install To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 21:10:46 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <16718.819371781@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Dec 19, 95 03:16:21 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Gee, guys, I've covered this a couple of times before. I can't launch the > shell until I chroot or I lose the floppy. I can't chroot until I've got a > reasonable enough environment to chroot *to* or it's kinda pointless! > > That's why it makes the most sense to chroot after I have the root > floppy. Yes, I agree it's a pain. Give me some fix for the problem > that clamps down on the root floppy and I'll happily fork off the EHS > any time you like! What's the exact error that's returned? I could think of two problems: The mounted floppy still has device nodes that are open. In this case, forcibly unmounting (umount -f, or unmount(..., MNT_FORCE)) would help. OTOH, i don't have a clue how the mfs_root mount is accomplished. Perhaps it's shadowing the mounted (by the boot process) floppy? In this case, i don't think there's a quick fix. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)