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From: Marco S Hyman <marc@dumbcat.codewright.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Building boot floppies
Date: 13 Feb 1997 12:53:35 -0800
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I wrote:
> I'm attempting to build a custom i386 boot floppie based upon 1.2 code
> but have run into a very reproducable error. I get a panic:
>
> /mnt: bad dir ino 3 at offset 0: mangled entry
Next time I'll read the man pages before posting. From vnd(4):
BUGS
The vnd driver does not work if the file does not reside in a local
filesystem.
The panic is what happens if the disk file vnconfig's lives on an
NFS mounted partition.
// marc