Subject: Re: new devel kernel on imac?
From: Ramprasad Rao (ramp@oddjob.uchicago.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 23 2000 - 00:40:13 MDT
Martin -
You hit the nail right on the head. I was just using the default
.config that paul ships with his tree and that does have 'devfs'
set. And 'devfs=nomount' as kernel argument works fine. I have not
yet tried mounting CD's yet.
This may be old news but wasn't there a time when hfs support was
broken in the 2.3 series devel kernels. Is that fixed now?
Thanks very much - Ramprasad
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Martin Costabel wrote:
>
> Could this be devfs related? Do you have CONFIG_DEVFS_FS options in
> .config?
> If yes, it might help to put "devfs=nomount" into the kernel arguments.
>
> Give us the precise error message. It could contain some more hints.
>
> As you can see from my mail headers, I am running -ac21, so it works on
> some machines. It does have serious problems with mounting, though. For
> example, I cannot mount hfs CDs, and when I mount a iso9660 CD and
> umount it again, ls sometimes still shows me the contents of the top
> directory of the CD.
> Sometimes I get ls output like the following (the first line contains
> control characters):
>
> root[112]#ll /mnt/cdrom
> ls: /mnt/cdrom/ä ?(r v?ä? n: No such file or directory
> ls: /mnt/cdrom/epÎ`: No such file or directory
> ls: /mnt/cdrom/ÿü°«: No such file or directory
> total 0
>
> So it is totally possible that the answer to your question is: You
> cannot do anything. Wait for less buggy kernels to appear.
>
> BTW, the 2.4.0-test1-ac21 kernels from Paul's pmac tree and from the
> bitkeeper tree both have severe bugs, but not quite the same. With
> Paul's kernel, I cannot run mozilla-M16, for example, because it doesn't
> find some shared library, due to problems with the transmission of
> environment variables, whereas the same thing works correctly with the
> bk kernel.
>
> --
> Martin
>
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