From owner-freebsd-small Fri Aug 28 05:43:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA12714 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 05:43:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA12709 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 05:43:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA16253; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 14:47:04 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 14:47:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: "Lars D. Nielsen" cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: WARNING: AN MFS BUG (Re: Problem with ver. 0.4 in system without HD) In-Reply-To: <199808281053.DAA00802@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Lars D. Nielsen wrote: > Problem with ver. 0.4 in system without HD > ------------------------------------------- > I have been working with the verson 0.4 of PicoBSD and I have some problems if > I try to boot on a system without harddrive. I get the following > errors: > dkl: slice 1 overleap slice 0 ...this is normal and expected on a DEVFS based system. > and then > panic: mfs_strategy bad device ...and this is, unfortunately, a genuine bug which was discovered three days ago (thanks to Eric Scott for reporting it). It's a bug in FreeBSD-current MFS code, and affects all installations using DEVFS with MFS on root. Some people are working now to fix it. When there is a fix, I'll rebuild the floppies available on the Web page, and you'll have to download them once again. Sorry for this, but it's the downside of using (still) experimental DEVFS. I do believe this is the way to go, but it still needs some shaking out... Andrzej Bialecki +---------------------+------------------------+--------------------------+ | | When in problem or in | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { | | Research & Academic | doubt, run in circles, | fetch("FreeBSD"); | | Network in Poland | scream and shout. | } | + --------------------+------------------------+--------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message