"mount" bug

jb1
2002-10-25T09:28:41Z

/dev/fd1 seems to mount, but be inaccessible.

After booting ELKS 0.1.1 from a 3-1/2" diskette in /dev/fd0, "mkdir /mnt",
"ls -l /" shows 2 hard links and a 32-byte size for mnt.

"mount /dev/fd1 /mnt", when /dev/fd1 contains a 5-1/4" ELKS diskette,
shows:
fd: probing disc in /dev/fd1
fd: /dev/fd1 probably has 15 sectors and 80 cylinders
MINIX-fs: mounting unchecked file system, running fsck is recommended.

"ls -l /" now shows 10 hard links and a 160-byte size for mnt.

"ls /mnt" now shows:
/mnt:
/mnt/in/sh
: No such file or directory

After this point, "meminfo" shows *more* free and the system rapidly
deteriorates ("Cannot fork", a blank commandline prompt, a garbage
commandline prompt, etc.)

Changing /mnt's permissions, owner and group don't help. Interchanging the
3-1/2" and 5-1/4" drives didn't help, although there were more error
messages from mount. Using 5-1/4" drives for both /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1
(with an ELKS 0.1.0 diskette in /dev/fd1) didn't help.

SOURCE PACKAGES:
elks-0.1.1.tar.gz, elkscmd_20020501.tar.gz, elksnet-0.1.1.tar.gz,
Dev86src-0.16.0.tar.gz
CVS PATCHES:
elksnet/ktcp/ip.c Version 1.10 (only on the 3-1/2" diskette)
COMPILED UNDER:
Red Hat 7.0 Linux, kernel 2.2.16-22