This one time, at band camp, Dinesh Nair said:

> and since the message is output from within /etc/inc/config.inc of the
> m0n0wall scripts, rest assured that your fs image is mounted correctly. :)

could it possible by bad ram?  i'll run memtest86 on it and see...

> what's the hardware you're using ?

Acer notebook:  AcerNote Lite Mdel PC350 Ext. 361.  pentium 120MHz, 40MB
ram, two pcmcic slots.  i've tried two different hard drives:
toshiba mk1624fcv 213MB, and Toshiba mk2124fc 120MB drive.

the machine boots fine under windows 95, as well as tom's root/boot linux
on a floppy, and picobsd.

jj