Subject: Re: /boot blocks and DOS partition tables
To: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/24/1997 14:17:17
On Thu, 24 Apr 1997 16:02:54 -0400 
 Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> wrote:

 >   Does anyone know a reason why the boot code might not
 > live with a partition manager? (osbs)
 >   Should I pick the "set active" part of OSBS?
 >  
 >   I get:
 > 
 > boot device: wd0
 > root on wd0a swap on wd0b
 > wd0: no disk label
 > no file system for wd0 (dev 0x0)
 > cannot mount root, error = 79

Are you trying to mount an ffs or msdosfs partition?  msdosfs doesn't
currentl have a way of dealing with device special files, so there's
not a (*vfs_mountroot)() entry point for it.

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