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Date:      Mon, 26 Feb 2001 09:29:06 -0500
From:      Bob Johnson <bob@eng.ufl.edu>
To:        matt@vcnet.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: newbie trying to compile FreeBSD 4.2 Kernel
Message-ID:  <3A9A6832.1DB0D80D@eng.ufl.edu>

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> 
> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 23:11:34 -0800
> From: "Matt D. Cummings" <matt@vcnet.com>
> Subject: newbie trying to compile FreeBSD 4.2 Kernel
>
> Hi!
> 
> I'm trying to compile my first custom kernel with FreeBSD and per the
> FreeBSD handbook (7.6 -If Something Goes Wrong) I'm sending this e-mail in
> hope of some assistance. Thank you in advance.
> 
> I was able to pass the /usr/sbin/config MATTKERN step ok...
> I was also able to cd ../../compile/MATTKERN and issue a 'make depend'
> Things fell apart on the 'make'.
> I was not forward thinking enough to copy the error down before I started
> digging through the on-line handbook and filling my buffer with handbook
> text.
> 
> Attached is my configuration file.
> 
> Thank you again for your time,
> 
> Matt
[...]
> # SCSI peripherals
> #device         scbus           # SCSI bus (required)
> #device         da              # Direct Access (disks)
> #device         sa              # Sequential Access (tape etc)
> #device         cd              # CD
> #device         pass            # Passthrough device (direct SCSI access)
[...]
> device          umass           # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da
[...]

You may have other problems as well, but here is one.  USB disks 
look like SCSI at some level, and require that basic SCSI support 
be installed.  Either remove the umass device, or add the scbus 
and da devices.

- Bob

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