Re: more <kernel-image>.bin breakage

[Phil Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 13:34, Richard Hirst wrote:
> >From utilities/dbootstrap/choose_medium.c:
> 
> const char *fs_type_tab[] = { "auto", "msdos", "vfat", "fat", "minix", "ext2", NULL };
> 
> so the code first tries to mount rescue.bin as type 'auto'.  That's fine
> on a normal system, where mount chooses vfat.  Under b-f, mount chooses
> msdos.
> 
> I don't know the difference between msdos and fat, but perhaps we should
> change the above to
> 
> const char *fs_type_tab[] = { "vfat", "fat", "msdos", "minix", "ext2", NULL };
> 
> of course, that is no good if any of the affected archs don't have vfat
> support in their kernel.

Watch out for #94435.  I think the change you are proposing carries the
risk of a relapse there.

p.