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Date:      Thu, 18 May 2000 14:08:16 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Ganizani Phiri <ganizani@malawi.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: WHAT COULD CAUSE MAKEDEV TO RETURN A NON-ZERO STATUS.
Message-ID:  <20000518140816.O21557@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <000201bfc0c3$975885e0$02a994d0@malawi.net>
References:  <000201bfc0c3$975885e0$02a994d0@malawi.net>

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Ganizani Phiri wrote:

> I am installing FreeBSD-4.0 on my Compaq Proliant Server. It has 3
> 4.3-GB WIDE ULTRA SCSI Discs mounted on a disk array.  FreeBSD-2.2.6
> never detected any disks. Release 4.0 detects them but after copying
> the files this error keeps appearing.
>
> Remaking all devices; then MAKEDEV returned a non-zero status ; then
> Some errors occured setup not completed successfully.

If you press ALT+F2 at this point (or ALT+F3, or ALT+F4, I forget which)
you should see a screen with some debug information.  That might give a
clue as to why MAKEDEV is failing, and any error messages it produced.

-- 
Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D


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