Re: [BProc] Setupfs: further analysis

[Niels W. <Nie...@um...>]

Agree, that was just a test. I have now started looking at the code for 
setupfs.c I have already discovered one quirk:
On line 294 it states
     return -1;
This is an unconditional fail, and it seems to help to comment out this 
line :-) . I keep checking!
Niels

ha...@no... wrote:

>>If I add the line
>>"plugin miscfiles /dev/hda3"
>>before the setupfs line, I get a sensible error message:
>>setupfs   :     mknod("/dev/hda3", 060660, 0x303): File exists
>>    
>>
>
>I guess that "plugin miscfiles /dev/hda3" is not needed, device file
>is normally created in setupfs. Adding this line probably just creates
>another problem, unrelated to the one you are hunting for.
>
>I would try to boot the node anyhow you can (probably without setupfs)
>and then try to do the mount by hand using bpsh, something like:
>
> bpsh 1 mknod /dev/hda3 b 3 3
> bpsh 1 e2fsck /dev/hda3
> bpsh 1 mkdir /scratch
> bpsh 1 mount /dev/hda3 /scratch
>
>and watch for errors.
>
>HTH
>
>Vaclav
>
>  
>

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