FFS_ROOT is gone?

Bernd Walter ticso at cicely12.cicely.de
Tue Jul 15 17:47:18 PDT 2003


On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:38:18AM +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
> *snip*
> 
> > > The machine rebooted. No matter if I did "?" or any "ufs:xxYz". It's
> > > behaviour was like "empty line".
> >
> > That's the normal behavour if the line can't be parsed.
> > IIRC you can't correct typos on that line.
> > Even if a line corrected with backspace looks good - it is not.
> 
> I'm very sure that I had a few attempts without any misstype because I tried
> that some dozends and I was aware that I didn't use any backspace

Another chance might be garbadge that went in.
E.g. I had a terminal server sending stop bytes when the kernel starts,
because the network was a bit to slow.
You'll never see those bytes because they are non-printable, but they
are there.

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