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Re: mount /dev/fd0 crashes system



On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 11:33:56PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > 
> > /etc/fstab has a line
> > /dev/fd0    /floppy    auto (plus a couple of numbers which I can't
> > remember off the top of my head).
> 
> What I suspect is that you are trying to mount the device with an 'auto'
> option which is cycling through a list of available filesystems and is
> hanging on one of these.  Any output in /var/log -- kern.log, messages,
> or debug, in particular.
> 

msdos filesystem is also quite broken on 2.4, though from what i read
all it did was destroy the filesystem not crash or anything.   it
seems to work ok read-only on my 2.4.0-test12 system.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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