Thanks Charles, I tried with devfs=nomount, but that does not solve the problem, the system still hangs even without the devfsd running when I try to mount the cdrom. Should I revert to MDK 8,0, which used to work very well indeed!
> ---------- > From: Charles A Edwards[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 11:45 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Help! devfs related? Strange behaviour of 8.1 > > <<File: message.footer.txt>> > On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 10:08:25 +0530 > Arnab_Ganguly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I got curious and investigated a little bit yesterday on what is > happening > > when the cdrom and floppy are mounted. > > > > mount /mnt/floppy results in /dev/fd0 unknown device, while a mount > > /mnt/cdrom leads to the machine hanging up on me. Next I looked at > /dev/fd0 > > and /dev/hdd in the /dev directory. These are links to /dev/floppy/0 and > > /dev/cdroms/cdrom0. These seem OK to me in the scheme of things, but > then > > for some reason cdroms and floppies cannot be mounted. Interestingly, > the > > system mounts a windows partition on the harddisc, and all other ext2, > ext3 > > and reiser partitions without any complaint or problem. > > > > I tried to revert to the MDK 8,0 kernel, but that seems to break a lot > of > > things, no ext3 support, no xinetd, and also problems mounting some > > filesystems. > > > > Could someone suggest some way out of this problem. Can someone help me > with > > the intricacies of the devfs? Or should I just upgrade to kernel 2.4.12 > and > > hope that this device mounting problem is solved without this again > breaking > > something? Has anyone tried out 2.4.12, does supermount work with > 2.4.12? > > These are some questions that come in mind. > > > > Experts please help! Or at least send me the e-mail address of some of > the > > relevant guys at Mandrakesoft, they might know the answers. > > > > Arnab > > > > > > A quick fix for this until the problems being which are being caused by > devfs on some systems have been sorted out is to edit the append line > in /etc/lilo.conf > Change the entry devfs=mount to devfs=nomount > And run lilo. > This will turn off devfs and all your drives will now mount in the same > manner > as in 8.0 > > Devfs, per say, is a good structure but there are problems with certain > system and hardware configs which were not encountered during its testing. > > Upgrading to a later kernel, though it may help in other areas, will not > correct any devfs related problems. > > > Charles > systems > > >
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