From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 8 09:03:07 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA15806 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 09:03:07 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA15800 ; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 09:03:04 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id BAA03792; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 01:27:04 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199506081557.BAA03792@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: 2.0.5A building /etc/fstab To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 01:27:00 +0930 (CST) Cc: vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu, pit@mail.nws.orst.edu, wheelman@max.tiac.net, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <6672.802605324@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 8, 95 02:55:24 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 966 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > It should technically be impossible, in fact. I go through ALL the > different types of partitions, including the DOS ones, and build a > table. Then I _sort_ this table so that / goes before /dos and such. Just speaking of /etc/fstab and the initial mounts - I installed on a system with a CDrom that I move around. Booting with the CD not connected, the initial mounts fail and I end up single-user. This was OK under 2.0; has this been changed, or is my brain spam? > Jordan (and if the former, how can I/we get around it?) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[