Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:15:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Joachim Kuebart <joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: devfs boot problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809210913120.21790-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <199809202138.XAA00555@>
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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 -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- <abial@nask.pl> ||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
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