From: Chris Shenton (shenton@sled.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Date: 04/05/93


From: shenton@sled.gsfc.nasa.gov (Chris Shenton)
Subject: Re: "mount -t msdos .." fails w/ Linux 0.99pl7A
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 22:14:10 GMT

On 2 Apr 93 13:10:54 GMT, Dag.H.Wanvik@kvatro.no (Dag H. Wanvik) said:

Wanvik> I have installed the Linux 0.99pl7A source on top of an SLS
Wanvik> 0.99pl6 install, and successfully rebuilt the kernel. I now
Wanvik> cannot mount a DOS floppy

Wanvik> # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt

Wanvik> fails with a message like this:

Wanvik> VFS: Disk changed ....

This is pretty much a ``me too'', but a different message and SLS...

I recompiled my SLS 0.99p5 kernel to switch off AUTO_IRQ detection in
order to fix a problem with it not recognizing my serial card; I
haven't changed anything else.

I noticed yesterday, when I tried to mount a floppy with a patch, that
it failed. I suspected the disk, so I went to my original SLS disks
and tried sysinstall on them. Again, failure. Looking through the
script, it appears to fail in the mount.

So I tried mounting by hand. The format of the patch was, like the SLS
disks, msdos.

        mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /user

Buzzz! I got something like ``Error 42357: unknow error''.
Same thing if I tried mounting with type minix or efs.

For kicks, I tried mounting without specifying the ``-t'' part: it
didn't blow up, but reported ``MINIX-FS: bad magic'' or some such;
this of course is correct.

Any ideas on why I can't mount -t anymore?

Thanks.