From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 8 17:16:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA12693 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 17:16:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from nrtc.nrtc.northrop.com (nrtc.northrop.com [128.99.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA12683 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 17:16:46 -0800 (PST) From: johnson@charming.nrtc.northrop.com Received: from charming.nrtc.northrop.com by nrtc.nrtc.northrop.com id aa02139; 8 Feb 97 16:10 PST Received: from charming.nrtc.northrop.com by charming.nrtc.northrop.com (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA23445; Sat, 8 Feb 97 17:16:31 PST Message-Id: <9702090116.AA23445@charming.nrtc.northrop.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: problem with make release.8 in /usr/src/release Date: Sat, 08 Feb 97 17:16:31 PST Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello FreeBSD gurus, I am trying to make a release boot floppy. I go into /usr/src/release, and do make release.1, etc. in turn. (I wanted to see what was happening at each step.) I encounter the following problem during release.8: the Makefile executes the following line: disklabel -w -r -B -b ${RD}/trees/bin/usr/mdec/fdboot -s ${RD}/trees/bin/usr/mdec/bootfd /dev/r${VNDEVICE} minimum and I get the following error message from the above command: ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Operation not supported by device Any ideas or suggestions as to why I am getting that error message? I am running a kernel that has the `vn' option, and most of the rest of the release.8 phase works. What are the consequences of the above error? As a work-around, could I dd the fs-image to a floppy, and then run the above command, but with the floppy device, so that the label on the floppy gets modified? Another question: When during the release building process does a kernel get put onto the file system contained in the boot floppy? I am ending up with a fs-image file that has a file system in it, complete with sh, gzip, lots of devices in /dev, etc., but no kernel. Perhaps this is related to the above ioctl problem? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks, Greg Johnson johnson@nrtc.northrop.com