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Re: [MiNT] ext2 as root filesystem



Hi,

On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 09:53:46AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Guido Flohr <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de> writes:
> 
> |> On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 01:59:29PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> |> > Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi> writes:
> |> > 
> |> > |> > Anyhow, it still doesn't resolve a strange bug I have been having,
> |> > |> > since a few days:
> |> > |> > 
> |> > |> > 'grep' in rc.boot doesn't find /etc/fstab when it is started by 
> |> > |> > INIT, but if I run 'sh /rc.boot' from a login shell, it works.
> |> > |> 
> |> > |> Has anybody got any explanation for this?
> |> > 
> |> > Perhaps UNIXMODE isn't set by init?
> |> 
> |> I would rather suspect that u: is not the current drive.
> 
> I don't think that it matters, since with UNIXMODE including rU a
> Unix-like absolute name is translated to u:\....

In theory yes.  But it doesn't always work.  I think I should insert a
Dsetdrv('u') in main.c of the MiNTLib (followed by a chdir() to make sure
that the current directory is not actually changed).

Ciao

Guido
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