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Date:      Sat, 11 Jan 1997 20:22:35 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To:        David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au>
Cc:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mounting devfs on /dev
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.970111201640.307E-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970111115710.davidn@labs.blaze.net.au>

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On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, David Nugent wrote:

> J Wunsch writes:
> > As John Fieber wrote:
> > >   panic: ffs_mountroot: can't set up bdevvp for root
> > Are you sure everything has been built correctly?
> 
> FWIW, it happens here too. It seems that devfs does not (yet)
> create the device nodes for hard disks correctly. It may be
> related to having the FreeBSD slice on a separate partition
> (in my case it was sd1s2). I've recently built a new root
> on sd0 using sd0x devices and not sd0xsNx, so I will give it
> another try when I next do a kernel build.

FWIW, When I boot on a kernel with DEVFS, but without DEVFS_ROOT,
then mount devfs, the all the disk entries show up correctly.
Booting on a DEVFS_ROOT kernel still panics though.

-john




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