Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 14:08:16 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Ganizani Phiri <ganizani@malawi.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: WHAT COULD CAUSE MAKEDEV TO RETURN A NON-ZERO STATUS. Message-ID: <20000518140816.O21557@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <000201bfc0c3$975885e0$02a994d0@malawi.net> References: <000201bfc0c3$975885e0$02a994d0@malawi.net>
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Ganizani Phiri wrote: > I am installing FreeBSD-4.0 on my Compaq Proliant Server. It has 3 > 4.3-GB WIDE ULTRA SCSI Discs mounted on a disk array. FreeBSD-2.2.6 > never detected any disks. Release 4.0 detects them but after copying > the files this error keeps appearing. > > Remaking all devices; then MAKEDEV returned a non-zero status ; then > Some errors occured setup not completed successfully. If you press ALT+F2 at this point (or ALT+F3, or ALT+F4, I forget which) you should see a screen with some debug information. That might give a clue as to why MAKEDEV is failing, and any error messages it produced. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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