Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 12:30:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/27303: Error during Commit: Unable to make device node for /dev/X in /dev! Message-ID: <200105131930.f4DJU2e31232@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/27303; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Dahlqvist?= <anedah-9@sm.luth.se> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/27303: Error during Commit: Unable to make device node for /dev/X in /dev! Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 21:27:41 +0200 On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 09:11:37PM +0200, André Dahlqvist wrote: > Guilty as charged. All my primary partions are taken with Linux partitions, :-) Does happen sometimes:-) > so an extended partition was all I had. Shouldn't FreeBSD warn you about this > though? At least if you set this partition bootable... Yes, I think warning would be reasonable (btw is this limitation anywhere in the docs at all? I could not find it with a quick glance anywhere and the fact that "it is common knowledge on the mailing lists" certainly does not qualify as "documented"...) > Thanks for your quick help! You're welcome! I hope you will be able to start using FreeBSD soon and will have a favourable experience! > > - Also you should be aware that your root (/) parition should go before the > > 1024th cylinder on your hdd or you may have problems booting. But that > > comes later:-) > > I was planning on using LILO to boot FreeBSD too, like I boot linux. OK, that will work. -- Regards: Szilveszter ADAM Szeged University Szeged Hungary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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