Subject: bin/13564: mount -u /kern/rootdev / fails
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <is@jocelyn.sub-etha.wtal.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/26/2001 23:41:31
>Number:         13564
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       mount -u /kern/rootdev / fails
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jul 26 14:39:01 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ignatios Souvatzis
>Release:        1.5.1 release, possibly current as of today
>Organization:
	Amiga installers anonymous
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD jocelyn.sub-etha.wtal.de 1.5W NetBSD 1.5W (DRACOISDN) #51: Thu Jul 26 21:33:11 CEST 2001 is@jocelyn.sub-etha.wtal.de:/var/obj/kernel/DRACOISDN amiga
Architecture: m68k
Machine: amiga
>Description:
	mount -u /kern/rootdev /, as executed by the Amiga install 
	miniroot (when rootdev is the embedded mfs), fails:

	mount: partition `/kern/rootdev' is not available on disk

>How-To-Repeat:
	E.g., try to install 1.5.1 on Amiga. First reported by Lars
	Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie> on the port-amiga mailing list.
>Fix:
	workaround: explicitly use mount -t ffs ... 
	but it looks from parts of the code like mount is supposed to fall
	back to ffs in case of error, and it doesn't.

>Release-Note:
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