Subject: Re: Problems booting off of built kernel
To: Chad Mynhier <mynhier@cs.utk.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 09/20/1996 16:43:01
On Thu, 19 Sep 1996 15:53:37 +0100 
 Chad Mynhier <mynhier@cs.utk.edu> wrote:

 > 	Has anyone else out there had this problem?  I'm running 1.2 (beta)
 > on a Sparc 5.  I'm running off of whatever was current a month ago.  I've
 > tried a couple of times to build a new kernel, but each time I've gotten
 > "le0: lost carrier" error messages when booting off of the new kernel.  I
 > tried this with source I obtained a month ago and source I got today.

It could be that the PROM and the kernel have a different idea about
which media type to use by default...

 > 	(As an aside, I'm having problems with mountd sometimes getting
 > an EPERM from a mount system call, even though I'm running it as root.
 > I'm trying to figure out what uid it thinks I am by having the mount system
 > call return the uid in errno instead of EPERM.)

Err ... mountd is running on what kind of system?  NetBSD?

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