Subject: install/9860: installed 1.4.2 GENERIC kernel isn't.
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <sysadmin@terc.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/11/2000 17:58:11
>Number:         9860
>Category:       install
>Synopsis:       installed 1.4.2 GENERIC kernel isn't.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    install-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 11 17:59:00 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Robby Griffin
>Release:        NetBSD-1.4.2
>Organization:
TERC
>Environment:
NetBSD khwarizmi 1.4.2 NetBSD 1.4.2 (GENERIC) #3: Wed Mar 15 23:41:54 PST 2000     toddpw@vader.toddpw.net:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386


>Description:
Using the installed GENERIC kernel described above, I have a problem
with mounting union filesystems which goes away when I build my own
copy of the GENERIC kernel. Thus the installed kernel can't really be
GENERIC, and I can't peek at toddpw's src tree to see how it broke
union filesystems.

Using his kernel, I get the following behavior:

>How-To-Repeat:
(install NetBSD 1.4.2)
# mkdir /tmp/lower
# mkdir /tmp/upper
# mount -t union /tmp/upper /tmp/lower
mount_union: /tmp/upper on /tmp/lower: Operation not supported by device

>Fix:
Rebuild GENERIC kernel, reboot, and watch the union mount work.
The distributed version should perhaps get fixed too.

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