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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!news99.sunet.se!news.uni-c.dk!cph-1.news.DK.net!dkuug!dknet!dkuug!ic.dk!kyklopen!kyklopen.ping.dk!staff From: staff@kyklopen.ping.dk (Thomas Sparrevohn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system Subject: Re: Linux user's comments (since 0.98! :-) on FreeBSD 2.1 Date: 16 Jan 96 03:38:51 GMT Organization: Grønsagens fremme Lines: 44 Message-ID: <staff.821763531@kyklopen.ping.dk> References: <4cr16t$obt@topcat.uk.gdscorp.com> <DKvHsK.G7@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.ping.dk X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:12588 comp.os.linux.development.system:15780 graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) writes: >: - Loadable modules don't appear to work out of the box. Compiling the >: kernel without MSDOS support, and then saying mount_msdos gives >: '(vfs)cannot find msdos_module'. Sounds about as broken as Linux at >: the moment ;-) >i don't use msdos - but for procfs & nfs it works fine - is there a >file msdos_mod.o in /lkm ? - moment - no it works in 2.1.0-RELEASE at >least - i installed it last weekend at a friend - i think you must do >anything wrong The lkm's depends on /usr/bin/ld, so you have to make sure that your msdos slice gets mounted after /usr has been mounted. The 2.1 installation script made my fstab look like this: /dev/wd1s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sd0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/wd0a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd0s1 /dos msdos rw 0 0 /dev/wd1s1e /usr ufs rw 1 1 ... which is clearly wrong if you want to use the lkm version of the msdos file system. It should be: /dev/wd1s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sd0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/wd0a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd1s1e /usr ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd0s1 /dos msdos rw 0 0 ... otherwise mount_msdos will fail because it can't find the linker. -- Thomas