Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 08:40:17 +0100 From: Timo Geusch <freebsd@timog.prestel.co.uk> To: Joachim Kuebart <joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs boot problems Message-ID: <19980921084017.A976@prestel.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199809202138.XAA00555@>; from Joachim Kuebart on Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 11:38:44PM %2B0200 References: <199809202138.XAA00555@>
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On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 11:38:44PM +0200, 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... > > cu Jo Jo, please see the thread I kicked of lately - labelled 'DEVFS and SLICE'. I had nearly the same symptoms showing. Reason for my non-working -current was that I was running with an initially empty /dev. If this is not the case, try remaking all devices in /dev (without running devfs; dig out an old -stable fixit floppy; did it for me) by first doing a MAKEDEV all then doing a MAKEDEV [wd|da]* (whereever your partitions sit) to recreate the disk slices. That did it for me - after 4 days of plaing around. Grrr. Timo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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