Re: Linux-1.3.89
Bryn Paul Arnold Jones (bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 17 Apr 1996 19:04:26 +0100 (BST)
On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, James L. McGill wrote:
>
> On Mon, 15 Apr 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> torvalds} - iso9660 bugfix (probably the one that caused some problems for people with
> torvalds} some CD's..)
>
> Is this related?
>
That was (on a RockRidge extended CD, this is my Red Hat 3.0.3 disk 1):
root@gytha:/mnt/cdrom# ls -l
total 108
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19000 Mar 4 21:15 COPYING
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5197 Mar 4 21:31 README
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1031 Mar 4 19:12 RPM-PGP-KEY
drwxrwxr-x 7 root root 2048 Mar 6 17:53 RedHat/
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1534 Mar 6 18:11 TRANS.TBL
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Feb 19 19:37 bin ->
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 2048 Mar 6 16:26 bootdisk/
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Mar 2 20:52 cdrom/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Mar 1 20:37 dev ->
drwxrwxr-x 6 root root 2048 Feb 27 20:21 doc/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Feb 28 19:29 dosutils/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Feb 19 19:38 etc ->
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Jul 4 1995 floppy/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Feb 19 19:38 image -> ./
drwxrwxr-x 6 root root 2048 Mar 4 22:02 images/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Feb 19 19:41 lib ->
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Jul 4 1995 mnt/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Jul 4 1995 proc/
drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 2048 Mar 1 20:37 ramdisk/
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 38658 Mar 2 17:17 redhat.exe*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 967 Feb 13 20:08 redhat.pif
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Mar 6 18:11 rr_moved/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 6 16:34 sbin/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Feb 19 19:41 tmp ->
drwxrwxr-x 9 root root 2048 Mar 6 18:06 trees/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Feb 27 21:21 upgrade ->
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Feb 19 19:41 usr ->
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 Jul 4 1995 var/
Notice all the symlinks are not pointing to anything, that was the
problem, the CD wasn't broken, but the isofs code was.
>
> chinacat:/# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb1 /cdrom
> mount: block device /dev/hdb1 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> 03:41: rw=0, want=33, limit=0
> isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 03:41 iso_blknum 16
> mount: wrong fs type or bad superblock on /dev/hdb1
>
You have to mount the whole disk, ie /dev/hdb, I get the same think if I
try to mount /dev/hdc1 (my cd is on hdc).
> isofs is a module, and the cd is an ATAPI type, and works under
> 1.2 and 1.3.75.
>
> -fb-
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