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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with kernel in 2.2-960501-SNAP
Date: 15 Jun 1996 23:44:01 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (Neil Brendan Clark) wrote:

> I now have the problem sorted, by removing the 
>  
> 	options     "MFS_ROOT=10"
> 
> line from my kernel config. I have no idea either!

Ooops.  Nice way to shoot into your foot. :-]

(MFS_ROOT is intended for the boot kernel, where the root f/s is
stored in a large dummy array inside the kernel, and mounted as an MFS
from there.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)