[BusyBox] followup on mount oddity from my previous email

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Thu Dec 11 21:31:39 UTC 2003


On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Erik Andersen wrote:

> On Thu Dec 11, 2003 at 07:59:02AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > mount: Mounting /dev/root on / failed: No such file or directory
> > rm: unable to remove `/etc/mtab': Read-only file system
> > ln: /etc/mtab: File exists
> > Mounting local file systems...
> [---------snip---------]
> >   any hints?  am i missing something obvious?  i'm not sure why replacing 
> > a real mount executable to a link to a mount-enabled busybox would start
> > causing these errors.
> 
> I suspect you have CONFIG_FEATURE_MTAB_SUPPORT disabled, and
> you system is setup expecting it to be enabled,

um ... ok, one of the other respondents suggested it should be *off*.
i'll try it both ways and see what happens.

rday




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