On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 07:25:21PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 09:11:46PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > > Hmm. I wonder if there's something wierd (and out of Linux's) hands > > going on. I remember trying to track this down when I worked for > > LinuxPPC, Inc. Things go horribly wrong if the disk is still mounted. > > But that's not the case here. > > don't know
Well if something from the disk _is_ mounted then, there's a probable culprit. > > Perhaps OF 'opens' up something on the driver partitions and it's never > > no. OpenFirmware does not use nor care, nor know anything about these > cruft driver partitions, they would be of absolutly no use to it since > they are filled with m68k assembly suitable only for consumption by > the MacOSROM. Are you sure OF doesn't open something up tho and leave it dangling? > > closed. I'm not totally sure myself, but I'm sort-of sure it's not a > > Linux bug. It's always possible, but it'd be a mighty strange race to > > be in both 2.2 and 2.4... > > i don't see how it could be anything but a linux bug, OpenFirmware > does not survive linux booting. Erm, right. And if we didn't properly 'shut down' OpenFirmware and it had something open, that could cause a bad interaction. -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
