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Date:      Wed, 18 Mar 1998 18:57:37 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>
Cc:        Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kernel / Compiler bug? 
Message-ID:  <199803190257.SAA24179@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Mar 1998 19:42:06 MST." <199803190245.TAA14021@pluto.plutotech.com> 

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> >Sorry if this is a re-run, but it looks like the original got lost somewhere.
> >
> >This problem may be CAM specific.
> >
> >I am not sure what to do about this one.  Since I got my machine I have not
> >been able to build a kernel that runs, without using "swap on generic" and
> >-a at the boot prompt
> >
> >Well, after doing some debugging, it looks like the line
> >
> >	dev_t rootdev = makedev(4, 0x000020000);
> >
> >in swapkernel.c (/usr/src/sys/compile/<foo>/swapkernel.c) isn't being run.
> 
> Are you sure it isn't simply being spammed somewhere in autoconf.c?

That's likely, if the bootblocks are passing in valid numbers.  If the 
disk is not labelled correctly, the bootstrap may pass in a bad major 
number.

You should check the values of majdev, slice and mindev at the end of 
autoconf.c:setroot().


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