From: ccaabpf@ucl.ac.uk (Ben Frank) Subject: Re: SLS wont mount /proc Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1993 16:42:43 GMT
In article <748188023.AA07652@psybbs.durham.nc.us> Derek.Bischoff%f1.n3641.z1@psybbs.durham.nc.us (Derek Bischoff) writes:
>
> LR> my fstab :
> LR> /dev/sda1 ext2 defaults
> LR> /proc /proc proc defaults
>
> LR> *** The sda1 entry looks suspect but, I dont know enough about linux
> LR> to know what it should look like. Also after install the /proc
> LR> entry was not there...I had to enter it in.
>
>May not be an issue, (since I don't quite understand /proc)
>however my fstab is:
>
>/dev/sda1 / ext2 defaults
>none /proc proc defaults
>
>maybe it is because you are looking for device /proc while
>mine is stated that there is no device, and just use the directory.
>oh, and I am glad to see someone else use the ext2 filesystem
>(and not the Linux extfs)
>I like the results, and it hasn't crashed yet!
>
>
>... Sincerely, Derek
Hi,
I think this should be put in the faq ( if it isn't already :)
mount at boot time will not work properly if you're root partition
is not properly described in the fstab, it doesn't matter if all the
other devices are described properly, if root isn't descrided properly
mount won't work. If you manually install SLS it makes a wrong entry
in the fstab, trying to mount it on /root rather than /, also you have
to have one and only one white space chacter between fields, it is
easy not to notice a space and a tab. The root device should be
described thus:
Device<tab>MountPoint<tab>FilessytemType<tab>defaults
I think that all right :)
Ben Frank.