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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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