Bug#58987: Loading or root.bin fails after incorrect user action
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.2.7
At the end of loading rescue.bin, the system asks for the root disk.
If the user by accident presses "Return" without replacing the disk,
the system asks for the root disk again. However, even if the root.bin
disk is now inserted, the following error message (abbreviated, since
I cannot copy it electronically :-) appears:
[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 16,check=no,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022]
[me=0x7b,cs=456,#f=193, ....]
Transaction block size = 512
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00
If, however, the user does not replace the rescue disk even on the
second try, a different error message is printed and also kernel panic
results.
In my opinion, the system should continue to ask for the correct disk
until the user supplies it, and should not be thrown off track by
improper actions of a (possibly novice) user. In particular, it should
recognize the root disk being left into the drive (and maybe even
print an appropriate message?)
The experimental system was a Pentium 90 / 32MB / 850MB which has been
running other flavours of Linux before.
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Toomas Tamm tt-debian@kky.ttu.ee
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