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Severe problems when mounting vfat partitions

DISCUSSION Olaf Stetzer 1 participant 1 message Apr 30, 2001 1 message not in the archive

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Am Samstag, 28. April 2001 20:18 schrieb Andrzej Krzysztofowicz:

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Dweezil:~# mount -t msdos /dev/hda5 /mnt
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
00000004

One-bit-from-zero address suggests hardware memory problem. Did you try to change memory chips ?

No, but I solved the problem yesterday at 3:00 in the night! A recompiled kernel (this time: 2.2.19) did the trick. However, the previous kernels I compiled with different options were not installed correctly. To be
precise: I have a small /boot partition where I store the kernels to boot, but unfortunately make bzlilo was not aware of that fact and so running lilo always installed the old broken 2.2.17!

Maybe the error had something to do with other problems mentioned about a VIA KT133 bug (data corruption...something) but I am quite happy that I can work again!

Bye,

Olaf