On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 10:08:25 +0530 Arnab_Ganguly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I got curious and investigated a little bit yesterday on what is happening > when the cdrom and floppy are mounted. > > mount /mnt/floppy results in /dev/fd0 unknown device, while a mount > /mnt/cdrom leads to the machine hanging up on me. Next I looked at /dev/fd0 > and /dev/hdd in the /dev directory. These are links to /dev/floppy/0 and > /dev/cdroms/cdrom0. These seem OK to me in the scheme of things, but then > for some reason cdroms and floppies cannot be mounted. Interestingly, the > system mounts a windows partition on the harddisc, and all other ext2, ext3 > and reiser partitions without any complaint or problem. > > I tried to revert to the MDK 8,0 kernel, but that seems to break a lot of > things, no ext3 support, no xinetd, and also problems mounting some > filesystems. > > Could someone suggest some way out of this problem. Can someone help me with > the intricacies of the devfs? Or should I just upgrade to kernel 2.4.12 and > hope that this device mounting problem is solved without this again breaking > something? Has anyone tried out 2.4.12, does supermount work with 2.4.12? > These are some questions that come in mind. > > Experts please help! Or at least send me the e-mail address of some of the > relevant guys at Mandrakesoft, they might know the answers. > > Arnab > > A quick fix for this until the problems being which are being caused by devfs on some systems have been sorted out is to edit the append line in /etc/lilo.conf Change the entry devfs=mount to devfs=nomount And run lilo. This will turn off devfs and all your drives will now mount in the same manner as in 8.0 Devfs, per say, is a good structure but there are problems with certain system and hardware configs which were not encountered during its testing. Upgrading to a later kernel, though it may help in other areas, will not correct any devfs related problems. Charles systems
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