From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 21 00:10:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA16702 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:10:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA16696 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:10:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA16180; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:15:26 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:15:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Joachim Kuebart cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: devfs boot problems In-Reply-To: <199809202138.XAA00555@> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Joachim Kuebart wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble booting with devfs. To me it looks like the kernel > doesn't find the device entry for the boot device because it hangs > (reset switch...) after announcing 'changing root device to...' > > I put the devfs entry first in my /etc/fstab to no avail. Now I feel > stuck. > > Did I get something wrong? A pointer to some docu would probably > suffice... DEVFS is broken (at least for boot time) after removal of SLICE code - it doesn't automatically create necessary slice/partition nodes. Don't use it. :-( Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message