From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 8 13:55: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1765037BC34 for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 13:55:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost.freebsd.dk [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA20592; Mon, 8 May 2000 22:54:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Erik de Zeeuw Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV warning with sysinstall ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 May 2000 15:41:55 CDT." <39172693.3F8BB151@usishealth.com> Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 22:54:42 +0200 Message-ID: <20590.957819282@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <39172693.3F8BB151@usishealth.com>, Erik de Zeeuw writes: > >I installed FreeBSD 5.0-20000506-CURRENT on an AMD K6-2, 64Mb, 4Gb, and >when I first launch /stand/sysinstall after the system has start, the >following message appears : > >... /kernel: WARNING: run /dev/MAKEDEV before 2000-06-01 to get rid of >block devices > >I searched the list archives and find some informations about this, but >nothing that helps me understand why I get this message. >Any idea about what could cause this message to come up ? No, I havn't tracked down the last couple of causes of this, but I will try to reproduce it as you describe it with some debugging added. Thanks for the hint! -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message