From: trucken@deca.cs.umn.edu (David Truckenmiller) Subject: Re: [Q] SLS 1.03 Problem: /proc not mounted at boot time? Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1993 20:25:23 GMT
In <CBK0uI.J90@boulder.parcplace.com> imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) writes:
>In article <trucken.744996017@deca> trucken@deca.cs.umn.edu (David
>Truckenmiller) writes:
>>I found that it worked only when I had /proc after the root
>>file system in my /etc/fstab. Don't know if there was something
>>else wrong though, I was changing so many things at the same
>>time I could hardly see straight.
>I found that my /etc/fstab was written like
>/dev/sda1 /root other
>/dev/sda3 /root/usr stuff
>/dev/sda4 /root/home here
>proc /proc ...
>and that I needed to change it to get rid of the "root" part. Before
>I did this, I found that df and mount were unable to tell me anything
>about my sysetem. After this change, all was well. Once I made this
>change, the proc stuff started working as well.
Yep, that's what happened to me as well. I think that is why I
"didn't like it" and got my old version. Things were very strange
when this happened, since the root wasn't mounted, so ls wasn't
found, etc. I remember now manually mounting / and then things
got better. No wonder I couldn't see straight!
BTW, I loaded from Harddisk option, where I had placed the entire SLS
distribution on a filesystem in the directory install. The doinstall
scripted asked me for the parition name, and everything loaded from
there, (no diskettes, no DOS filesystem, etc), very nice.
So, someone at SLS needs to be notifed that the fstab is munged.
How do we do that? (short of reading the directions in the README
that explains how to do it? :-))
-Dave