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Re: [MiNT] Kernal questions.



On 28 Jan 99 23:46:57 +0000, Maurits van de Kamp wrote:

> > mount: GEMDOS drive a: mounted thru XHDI
> > DKInitVolume: Media rejected               <-- Taken from memory
> > 
> > ...it starts chewing on the empty floppy for exactly 30 seconds before it
> > continues to boot.
> > 
> > The only thing that differs my Falcon from your is (I guess) "only" the
> > Afterburner, but as Frank Naumann has one too I don't think this is a AB-specific
> > problem.
> 
> Um, no the difference is that I don't mount my gemdos drives. Am I 
> supposed to? :) I suppose you have the "dos" drives also filled in in 
> /etc/fstab, whereas I only have the minx partition(s) listed there. 

I don't have anything at all in fstab (why should I?), and since the delay
appears long before any scripts are run I really don't see how this can
be a problem. I believe the "mount"-message is from NEWFATFS scanning/"mounting"
FAT-partitions.


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