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From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: more on the "mysterious reboot" problem
Date: 25 Jan 1995 18:18:35 GMT
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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In article <3g61sh$imt@ivory.lm.com>,
Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.lm.com> wrote:

>On a related note, I compiled a kernel -without- the options MSDOSFS option,
>but can still mount my msdos filesystem.  I do get an ugly looking message
>when booting, though.  Need I worry, or is that just lint?

When you compile a kernel without `options MSDOSFS' and then say
`mount -t msdos something...', the `mount_msdos' program is smart
enough to dynamically load /lkm/msdos_mod.o for you.  (This is why
it's important to make sure that your LKMs and kernel are the same
version.)  See vfsload(3).

I would have to know what that ugly-looing message at boot is.  I
suspect the problem can be easily remedied by putting your DOS
partition after / and /usr in your /etc/fstab file.

-GAWollman

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