Bug 41796

Summary:	mount -t ufs fails on RH 7.1
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Daryl Spartz <dspartz>
Component:	util-linux	Assignee:	Elliot Lee <sopwith>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	7.1
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Description Daryl Spartz 2001-05-22 06:30:45 UTC

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Description of problem:
Two disks. First with LILO and FreeBSD, second with RH7.0. Both boot ok. 
Booting under Linux, I am able to mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd the 
partitions (slices) of the first drive.

Upgraded Linux to RH 7.1. LILO still able to boot either one. Now, mount 
fails with generic message about wrong filesystem type, or option, or bad 
superblock

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd /dev/hda5 /mnt/freebsd/root
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  mount failed. (Actual msg will be added later)

Additional info:

Comment 1 Daryl Spartz 2001-05-22 16:44:56 UTC

failing msg:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5,
or too many mounted file systems
(could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)

It is an IDE drive, just the default file systems mounted:

/dev/hdb6 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/us type usbdevfs (rw)
/dev/hdb1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
automount(pid617) on /misc type autofs (rw,fd=5,pgrp=617,minproto=2,maxproto=3)

Comment 2 Arjan van de Ven 2001-05-23 08:56:26 UTC

Could you download and install the 2.4.3-5 or 2.4.3-7 kernel from rawhide?
Those should have BSD partitiontype support at least.

Comment 3 Daryl Spartz 2001-05-24 22:03:46 UTC

The 2.4.3-5 kernel was found at rawhide, not the 2.4.3-7. I installed it. The 
same error appears, but this time dmesg indicated that read-only mode was 
compiled in. So when I add option -r, the mount is successful. So, the only 
problem now is the incorrect or too ambiguous error message.

Comment 4 Arjan van de Ven 2001-05-25 08:20:09 UTC

The errormessage is generated by "mount" -> reassigning to get the message fixed

Comment 5 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-01-17 19:17:39 UTC

Assigning to util-linux, where mount lives these days

Comment 6 Elliot Lee 2002-01-29 22:00:47 UTC

I don't know of a way to convince the kernel to provide details of the failure,
which is why the error message is so generic.