umsdos as root, MCA
Rick Hohensee (humbubba@raptor.cqi.com)
Mon, 26 Oct 1998 05:58:48 -0500 (EST)
> (spastic manual quote paste from the digest)
>From: mnalis@public.srce.hr (Matija Nalis)
>Date: Sun, 25 Oct 98 20:37 MET
>Subject: Re: .126 umsdos oopzen>>
>
>On Sat, 24 Oct 1998 08:44:54 -0400 (EDT), Rick Hohensee
><humbubba@raptor.cqi.com
>> wrote:
>>I got a fresh whole 2.1.126, got awk so I could menuconfig,
>>pointed gcc 2.7.2.3 at it, and it wouldn't link. umsdos
>>stuff unfound. I looked in fs/umsdos/dir.c, and that static
>>thing Sulmicki took out in his patch, or something similar,
>>still seemed to be there. Anyway, I deleted one occurence>
>
>Yes. Both this compile_umsdos_in_kernel, and root_partition_is_umsdos are
>fixed (mostly); unfortunately, I didn't managed to get Linus to include
>it
>in standard kernel yet (Yes, I keep trying :). Diffs for umsdosfs against
>2.1.126 are attached, please try them and see if they fix the problem.>
>Booting off umsdos partition won't work in plain 2.1.126 without this
>patch.>
That's good to know.
>
>>are telling me is sdc sdb and sda. This is on
>>an MCA PS2.
>This is not (should not be) umsdos related, so I wouldn't know (no more
>MCA
>machines around for some time. Waiting for Thinkpad 720 to get back)>
>
So you don't think MCA effects the umsdos stuff at all, I take it. Also
good info. Any comment on having MCA and PCI support in one kernel? That's
my top wishlist item at the moment.
>>I hope there's some info there for somebody. I could use some.>
>
>Hope this diff helps.
Yeah. Well, this post itself is a help. And it makes me feel like a real
participant or something :o)
So, THANKS!
Rick Hohensee colorg (*&#$*&*&$******* any questions?
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