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Date:      Tue, 26 Nov 1996 21:49:20 +0100 (MET)
From:      Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, kjk1@ukc.ac.uk
Subject:   Re: A simple way to crash your system.
Message-ID:  <199611262049.VAA18493@gvr.win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199611252014.VAA18142@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Nov 25, 96 09:14:37 pm"

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J Wunsch wrote:
> As K.J.Koster wrote:
> 
> > Altough I am speculating here, I think this has to do with the fact that
> > I do not have msdosfs compiled in with the kernel. After installing a
> > different kernel, I asked the system to modload msdosfs, with the above
> > result.
> 
> Running a kernel with the wrong LKMs is known to cause you grey hairs.
> I'm often falling into this trap, but the other way around: by
> rebooting a new kernel without rebuilding and reinstalling the LKMs
> first.

Can't we built in some way of detecting that an lkm is for the wrong kernel?
If things are so dependant, why not take the uname -a string as an
identifier....

-Guido



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