I've just noticed this too.



On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Ken Wellsch wrote:

> Since Saturday, I've been unable to get into multi-user on my AlphaPC164SX
> with a new kernel built with source sup'ed each day (including today). 
> I revert back to the kernel I built Thursday (Mar 25) and a user-land
> built Wednesday (Mar 24).
> 
> In single user, if I type "mount<cr>" it hangs with no output, and no
> amount of keyboard activity can seem to get any attention save a break
> into DB.
> 
> I tracked it to the mount call used in mount_critical_filesystems in the
> start-up rc stuff.
> 
> With my old kernel, I get "root_device /dev/wd0a ...\n" from "mount."
> 
> -- Ken Wellsch
>