port-sparc: Re: Config without FFS leads to panic?

Subject: Re: Config without FFS leads to panic?
To: Paul Boven <paul@wit399401.student.utwente.nl>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/05/1999 11:08:55

On Jan 4, Paul Boven wrote
> Hi everyone,
> 
> While trying to build an extra-small kernel for my diskless SLC, I
> decided to remove the FFS option from the kernel config file. (It will
> only use NFS anyway. Also removed SCSI and some other stuff.)
> The resulting kernel boots, but when the system starts to do file-system
> checks, I get a nice panic. Adding only the FFS option back in gives me
> a working kernel again.
> Is this know behaviour, or should I document some more so we can see what's
> going wrong?

No, it's not supposed to happen. I have such a setup with 1.3.2.
Could you give more details about the panic ?

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