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Date:      Tue, 17 Mar 1998 09:36:33 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
To:        max@ludd.luth.se (Max Nilsson)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Am I using a  SCSI tape-device as root file system ? :-)
Message-ID:  <199803171636.JAA15027@panzer.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980317104700.51973@taurus.ludd.luth.se> from Max Nilsson at "Mar 17, 98 10:47:00 am"

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Max Nilsson wrote...
> Hello.
> 
> My new current-kernel is drunk.
> cvsup:ed and compiled on Tue Mar 16 1998
> 'dmesg' tells me the following:
> 
> npx0 on motherboard
> npx0: INT 16 interface
> changing root device to st1s1a
>                         ^^^^^^
> 
> I did not know that you can use a tape-device as root
> file-system. :)
> And I did not know that you can have partition-slices
> on a tape. :-)

	re-cvsup and recompile your kernel.  autoconf.c was broken in rev
1.89, and fixed in rev 1.92.  If your kernel works correctly, though, you
should be fine.

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@plutotech.com

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