Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 09:52:31 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Jos Backus <Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mountroot problem Message-ID: <19104.926236351@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 May 1999 23:19:49 %2B0200." <19990508231949.A93718@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com>
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I found it, will commit in a sec. Sorry.
Poul-Henning
In message <19990508231949.A93718@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com>, Jos Backus writes:
>Some more information:
>
>In sys/i386/i386/autoconf I'm seeing the following happen:
>
>static void
>setroot()
>{
> int majdev, mindev, unit, slice, part;
> dev_t newrootdev;
> char partname[2];
> char *sname;
>
> if (boothowto & RB_DFLTROOT || (bootdev & B_MAGICMASK) != B_DEVMAGIC)
> return;
> majdev = B_TYPE(bootdev);
> printf("setroot: majdev=%d,bdevsw(majdev)=%p\n",majdev,bdevsw(majdev));
> if (majdev >= nblkdev || bdevsw(majdev) == NULL)
> return;
> unit = B_UNIT(bootdev);
> slice = B_SLICE(bootdev);
>
>etc.
>
>which prints
>
> setroot: majdev=4,bdevsw(majdev)=0
>
>Thus the function returns, without setting the name of the root device further
>on in the code (it would appear that that is where it happens).
>
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