RE: Weird lockups & other problems

>Intimate was a bit more troublesome. I suspect that pure NFS isn't an
option
>that's tested very much --- I had to hack the linuxrc.intimate script to
get
>it to start. For reference, you can't mount NFS volumes unless EITHER
portmap
>is running and lo is set up OR you use the nolock option. Also, the test to
>see if /dev/hda1 is available is broken. It's always available, even when
>there is no microdrive. It's just not openable.

Yep.. the NFS stuff is not very well tested. I thought it did work tho' the
last time I tried it. I never managed to get swap working myself, so I kept
on running out of memory and getting system hangs.. much like yourself.
(Probably why it's not well tested). I'm pretty sure that someone else got
swap working tho'. (Any chance of some patches/howtos if you get NFS and
swap running nicely?)

With a devfs kernel (which is what I use), then /dev/hda1 doesn't appear
until the drive is detected. I though that devfs kernels were the default
with familiar these days... I've certainly never run into problems with hdd
detection.

Jim / Tangent