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Date:      Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:33:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: potential UFS kernel problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809301028080.10660-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980930005330.A1326@nuxi.com>

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On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, David O'Brien wrote:

> I would really appreciate it if someone would see if this patch to
> GENERIC produces a kernel that can't mount a UFS root.

Throw some debugging into mount_ufs.  I doubt this is strictly a kernel
bug, or else you wouldn't be able to mount root at all (panic: cant mount
root).

I'd be careful playing with procfs, things may depend on it in unusual
ways.  But removing msdosfs and cd9660 shouldn't impact ufs.

> Thru many kernel compiles, I have narrowed it down the changes below.
> Note that uncommenting any one of the options resolves the problem.  I
> usually don't statically compile in these FS's so that the LKM versions
> will be used.

>  options		INET			#InterNETworking
>  options		FFS			#Berkeley Fast Filesystem
>  options		NFS			#Network Filesystem
> -options		MSDOSFS			#MSDOS Filesystem
> -options		"CD9660"		#ISO 9660 Filesystem
> -options		"CD9660_ROOT"		#CD-ROM usable as root device
> +#options		MSDOSFS			#MSDOS Filesystem
> +#options		"CD9660"		#ISO 9660 Filesystem
> +#options		"CD9660_ROOT"		#CD-ROM usable as root device
>  options		FFS_ROOT		#FFS usable as root device [keep this!]
> -options		NFS_ROOT		#NFS usable as root device
> -options		PROCFS			#Process filesystem
> +#options		NFS_ROOT		#NFS usable as root device
> +#options		PROCFS			#Process filesystem
>  options		"COMPAT_43"		#Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!]
>  options		SCSI_DELAY=15000	#Be pessimistic about Joe SCSI device
>  options		UCONSOLE		#Allow users to grab the console

Doug White                               
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