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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, David Moberg wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > > It might work better if you link /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab. Or is it
> > > already set up that way? Can't tell, I'm not using your root image
> > > at the moment. ln -sf /proc/mounts /etc/mtab
> >
> > Nor am I, I am in DOS.  It is set up the way BL3.32 was set up.
>
> /proc/mounts is linked to /etc/mtab.
>
> > I tried to umount things.  I don't think I was in the chrooted terminal at
> > the time.  But at one point I had 5 loop modules when I typed ps and could
> > not insmod anything else loop.  I am pretty sure that I umounted at least
> > once without chrooting and the loop remained.
>
> I am unable to reproduce this. I mounted -o loop both inside and
> outside of the chroot and was able to unmount. It successfully
> freed the loop device. ps aux showed that loop0, loop1, etc.
> disappeared as I unmounted them. I was then able to rmmod
> loop.o.
>
> I had to mount proc inside of the chroot. I was able to mount
> the flash drive again inside of the chroot environment.

How do I do this (so that I can mount the usb-storage device)?
Is it something I can do on the same line as chroot /mnt /bin/sh ?
Can I put it into rc or somewhere in the usbcam file to be automatic?

Which *hci are you using?  The last four computers I tried are all uhci 
and I had to use uhci.o.

> > > The loops are still in use. Try busybox umount or figure out how
> > > to get SW umount to realize that it is supposed to free the loop
> > > devices when it is done with them. rmmod loop when they are
> > > free to kill loop.
> >
> > I tried three different busybox umounts.
> > Maybe mount is getting confused by scsi.  Do you have usb-uhci.o that I
> > can try in case it works better?
>
> Does the one on 1440.img work?

I will try that in a few days after we conquer scsi boot and put two 
computers back together.  So far I only tested with the larger kernel from 
BL2 and modules in userspec.tgz.

Did you mean by the 'one' - mount, or usb-uhci.o?

> David