[BusyBox] 0.48 - Can't mount /proc

[Florian Lohoff]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 04:48:08AM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Thu Jan 11, 2001 at 09:28:28AM +0200, Michael Shmulevich wrote:
> > Erik,
> > 
> > No, doesn't help.
> > 
> > bash# mount proc /proc -t proc                                          
> >        
> > mount: Mounting proc on /proc failed: Unknown error 716878944           
> >        
> > 
> > Maybe people in mips-linux know something about this?
> 
> Yes, this does sound like a kernel specific problem then,
> since this works on (at least) arm, ppc, sh, and x86.
> I havn't tried it on anything else.

Henning Heinold has done a lot with busybox on mips (debian installer)
Might this be due to kernel 2.4 and /proc/mounts includeing a / in front
of proc 

(flo at ping)~# cat /proc/mounts 
/dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
/dev/sda7 /usr ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/sda8 /var ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/sda9 /tmp ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/sda10 /home ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/hda5 /var/tmp ext3 rw 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
automount(pid19472) /mnt autofs rw 0 0
(flo at ping)~# uname -a
Linux ping.mediaways.net 2.2.18ext3 #1 Thu Dec 14 18:24:45 CET 2000 i686 unknown

Or 

flo at resume:~$ cat /proc/mounts 
/dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0
/proc /proc proc rw 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /home2 ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /home3 ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/sdd1 /ftp.rfc822.org ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/sde1 /home4 ext2 rw 0 0
shmfs /var/shm shm rw 0 0
devpts /home4/dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
proc /home4/proc proc rw 0 0
flo at resume:~$ uname -a
Linux resume.rfc822.org 2.4.0-test6 #2 Sun Aug 27 12:37:51 GMT 2000 mips unknown


Henning has fought with this IIRC.

Flo
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