Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 11:22:41 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> To: Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net> Cc: freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Bizarre clone attempt failures on Raspberry Pi2... Message-ID: <841D0760-66D7-43A7-AB6A-AEFEA177DAD6@kientzle.com> In-Reply-To: <d1aba096-e645-04df-dfda-5a9284250960@denninger.net> References: <548783e1-9047-68f7-5f50-449db684d602@denninger.net> <d2eb4035-e494-1a7b-98e5-2aa87efe0763@denninger.net> <EDE65B12-4961-4CEF-8AE9-BFDA4FD508A5@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <5475ea53-ae22-2634-6f2a-5737d1b0e308@denninger.net> <398ae56c-8893-f188-c210-cf7f19ccf433@denninger.net> <1468518953.72182.219.camel@freebsd.org> <7a91fc79-1c85-fac8-aa3f-db90592f3f44@denninger.net> <bec46aff-a4d5-9c4d-49d0-78534b13f719@denninger.net> <E01579F5-9562-4E51-9CFB-EA510460A4C8@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <60b6e156-981e-9fbd-b68c-0daae1961286@denninger.net> <04391154-A38E-46CD-B570-B2BECFD19022@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <d1aba096-e645-04df-dfda-5a9284250960@denninger.net>
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> > > The quick fix is to put "failok" (or noauto) in the default /etc/fstab > entry for the dos filesystem, since it is not necessary for that > filesystem to be mounted at all on a running machine. If there is a > policy reason to leave it accessible (and there's a fairly-clean > argument that there is) then "failok" might be preferable to "noauto", > but either way forcing a filesystem that is not necessary to be > accessible or the system fails to come up and does not give any > indication of same on what many users will have accessible to them is > facially wrong. History: I believe this is something I introduced in Crochet that has been picked up by the RE build scripts. Mounting the MSDOS partition as /boot/msdos was intended to ensure that the critical boot elements were all visible so they could be easily edited and/or updated. For example, the FDT files (and other boot-time configuration files) reside there. Without this, those components are invisible and hence more difficult to update on device and also more difficult to explain and document. Timhome | help
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