Re: Busybox

[Jeff Elkins <jeffelkins@earthlink.net>]

On Wednesday 22 October 2003 8:32 pm, W. Paul Mills wrote:
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>On Wednesday 22 October 2003 18:02, Jeff Elkins wrote:
>> I'm compiling busybox-1.00-pre2/pre3 for the sharp rom and I get
>> errors upon boot:
>>
>> /etc/mtab is read-only
>> mount /dev/mmcda1 fails
>>
>> however, after boot completes, everything seems to work fine.
>> Any ideas on what might be causing the initial errors? I'm
>> wondering if there's a compile option I missed...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jeff Elkins
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>Sounds like you try to mount /dev/mmcda1 before it's module is
>loaded. Then later it loads "as if" the card was just inserted. It
>cannot load from /etc/fstab because the module is not loaded yet.
>(I'm going from memory here, hope that's right.)
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Thanks for the reply Paul. I'm pretty sure this is a busybox problem, since 
the system boots w/o errors when using a Sharp-supplied busybox. 

However, I did just compile the last stable 60.5 release and it's running w/o 
errors, so I may stick with that and report the error to the busybox folks.

Jeff