From: peterw@archsci.arch.su.oz.au (Peter Williams ) Subject: Re: Bootimage-0.97pl5 + Rootimage-0.97.1 Date: 22 Sep 1992 01:01:42 GMT
In article <1992Sep21.185916.5640@astro.as.utexas.edu>, noah@astro.as.utexas.edu (Noah Smith) writes:
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|> I booted with the new bootimage-0.97pl5 today during lunch.
|> I then tried to install Linux to a hard-disk with rootimage-0.97.1.
|> The install script ran fine until it tried to mount hda1. Mount causes
|> a segmentation fault- I can not get past this point.
|>
|> Can anyone tell me if it is the mount binary on rootimage
|> causing the problem? The hard-disk had just been low-level formatted,
|> 35M Linux partition added, 5M swap partition added, mkfs -c /dev/hda1 35???,
|> mkswap -c /dev/hda2 5???, mount /dev/hda1 /mnt -----> Segmentation fault
Yes. I had the same problem but it went away when I replaced mount and umount
with an older version (from rootimage-0.97 I think).
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