odd boot message 2.1.21

Roy P. Turner (ecstasy@dopamine.com)
Tue, 14 Jan 1997 18:48:10 -0600 (CST)

This showed up while booting 2.1.21. I've never seen it in any previous
kernel. It didn't seem to cause any problems, so I'm just curious what it
means.

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Exception at [<c012b444>] (c018a8a8)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Thanks,
Roy

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