Here's what happens. I have a DOS or Linux floppy I mount via: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt or fdmount fd0 /mnt
That works fine. But, when I type: cd /mnt I get the following every time. If I'm logged in as root I return to the prompt. If I am logged in anyone else I am logged out. The only way I can find to escape this is to reboot. Here's a little more info: debian:~> dmesg Linux version 2.4.19 (root@debian) (gcc version 3.2) #4 Wed Nov 6 08:13:13 EST 2 002 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000003000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 48MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 12288 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(2): 0 pages.es. Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=301 Initializing CPU#0 Detected 100.228 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 199.88 BogoMIPS Memory: 46484k/49152k available (1027k kernel code, 2284k reserved, 245k data, 2 24k init, 0k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. CPU: After vendor init, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After generic, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 06 Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mtrr: detected mtrr type: none PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb200, last bus=0 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds. isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: SB audio device quirk - increasing port range isapnp: AWE32 quirk - adding two ports isapnp: Card 'Creative SB AWE32 PnP' isapnp: Card 'U.S.Robotics x2 Winmodem Voice' isapnp: 2 Plug & Play cards detected total Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags: R/O] pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured further down... Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 Actual error is: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000028 printing eip: c013fc32 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c013fc32>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010293 eax: 00000000 ebx: 3dcbbc8b ecx: c1a85420 edx: c19509e0 esi: c19de000 edi: c19dff8c ebp: c1a85420 esp: c19dff14 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process ls (pid: 356, stackpage=c19df000) Stack: c19509e0 c013694a c1a85420 00000000 c11ce000 c19dff8c 00018801 00000001 00000003 c11ce004 c19509e0 c11ce001 00000003 00295e98 c0136ac6 c0136f84 00018800 c11ce000 080567c8 bffffc1c 00000200 00000000 00000004 00000000 Call Trace: [<c013694a>] [<c0136ac6>] [<c0136f84>] [<c012d55b>] [<c012d8a6>] [<c0108813>] Code: 8b 50 28 f6 c6 04 75 30 f6 81 0c 01 00 00 02 75 27 f6 c6 08 <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000028 Nov 8 08:30:51 debian kernel: printing eip: Nov 8 08:30:51 debian kernel: c013fc32 Nov 8 08:30:51 debian kernel: Oops: 0000 Nov 8 08:30:51 debian kernel: CPU: 0 Nov 8 08:30:51 debian kernel: EIP: 0010:[update_atime+22/80] Not tainted Nov 8 08:30:51 debian kernel: EFLAGS: 00010293 Nov 8 08:30:51 debian kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: 3dcbbc8b ecx: c1a85420 e dx: c19509e0 Nov 8 08:30:51 debian kernel: esi: c19de000 edi: c19dff8c ebp: c1a85420 e sp: c19dff14 Nov 8 08:30:51 debian kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Nov 8 08:30:51 debian kernel: Process ls (pid: 356, stackpage=c19df000) Nov 8 08:30:51 debian kernel: Stack: c19509e0 c013694a c1a85420 00000000 c11ce0 00 c19dff8c 00018801 00000001 Nov 8 08:30:51 debian kernel: 00000003 c11ce004 c19509e0 c11ce001 000000 03 00295e98 c0136ac6 c0136f84 Nov 8 08:30:51 debian kernel: 00018800 c11ce000 080567c8 bffffc1c 000002 00 00000000 00000004 00000000 Nov 8 08:30:51 debian kernel: Call Trace: [link_path_walk+1778/2132] [path_w alk+26/28] [open_namei+116/1272] [filp_open+51/84] [sys_open+54/132] Nov 8 08:30:51 debian kernel: [system_call+51/64] Nov 8 08:30:51 debian kernel: Nov 8 08:30:51 debian kernel: Code: 8b 50 28 f6 c6 04 75 30 f6 81 0c 01 00 00 0 2 75 27 f6 c6 08 Nov 8 08:31:46 debian kernel: <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer derefere nce at virtual address 00000028 Nov 8 08:31:46 debian kernel: printing eip: Nov 8 08:31:46 debian kernel: c013fc32 Nov 8 08:31:46 debian kernel: Oops: 0000 Nov 8 08:31:46 debian kernel: CPU: 0 Nov 8 08:31:46 debian kernel: EIP: 0010:[update_atime+22/80] Not tainted Nov 8 08:31:46 debian kernel: EFLAGS: 00010293 Nov 8 08:31:46 debian kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: 3dcbbcc2 ecx: c1a85420 e dx: c19509e0 Nov 8 08:31:46 debian kernel: esi: c19de000 edi: c19dffa4 ebp: c1a85420 e sp: c19dff48 Nov 8 08:31:46 debian kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Nov 8 08:31:46 debian kernel: Process fdumount (pid: 360, stackpage=c19df000) Nov 8 08:31:46 debian kernel: Stack: c19509e0 c013694a c1a85420 c26fd000 000000 00 c19dffa4 00000009 00000001 Nov 8 08:31:46 debian kernel: 00000009 c26fd004 c19509e0 c26fd001 000000 03 00295e98 c0136ac6 c0136e51 Nov 8 08:31:46 debian kernel: c19de000 c19dffa4 0804e910 bffffb9c c0133f 41 c19de000 0804e910 c10b77a0 Nov 8 08:31:46 debian kernel: Call Trace: [link_path_walk+1778/2132] [path_w alk+26/28] [__user_walk+53/80] [sys_stat64+25/120] [system_call+51/64] Nov 8 08:31:46 debian kernel: Nov 8 08:31:46 debian kernel: Code: 8b 50 28 f6 c6 04 75 30 f6 81 0c 01 00 00 0 2 75 27 f6 c6 08 debian:~> Please help. Thanks. Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]