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From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@apache.org>
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Subject: misc/31380: NFS rootfs mount failure message too cryptic
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>Number:         31380
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       NFS rootfs mount failure message too cryptic
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Oct 19 11:50:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Dirk-Willem van Gulik
>Release:        4.4
>Organization:
private
>Environment:
FreeBSD goedel.workbench.covalent.net 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #1: Fri Jul 20 18:45:32 PDT 2001     root@goedel.workbench.covalent.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/GOEDEL  i386

>Description:
in nfs/bootp_subr.c:

When setfs() fails during NFS mount of the root partition due to essentially a malformed root path string - then the error message
is simply

	panic("Failed to set rootfs to %s",p);

without any hint as to what the problem is.
	
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
Given that the message is only shown when setfs() fails - which really is by and large a syntax check function - a slightly more informative string would be really nice

	failed to set rootfs to '%s' - expect <ip>:/path syntax

or something.

Tx !

Dw
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