Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 21:18:12 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl> Cc: Manfred Antar <mantar@pacbell.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV Warning ??? Message-ID: <95933.958245492@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 May 2000 21:07:31 %2B0200." <20000513210731.C31594@lucifer.bart.nl>
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In message <20000513210731.C31594@lucifer.bart.nl>, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werv en writes: >-On [20000513 21:06], Manfred Antar (mantar@pacbell.net) wrote: >>I get this in boot mesgs and I don't know how to fix it. >>Device char-major=13 minor=0 opened in block mode, convert to char mode >>with /dev/MAKEDEV before 2000-07-01 > >There is a bug somewhere in the rootmount code. > >I just lack the expertise to find out where it is. Actually I think this is an indication of really old boot blocks. The old bootblocks passed in a Bmajor number for the root device. Could you try to update your bootblocks with the disklabel program and see if that stops the warning Manfred ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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