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assar@stacken.kth.se wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Brandon Fosdick wrote:
> > Okay, it builds, it installs, but it just won't work. What am I doing
> > wrong? When I run startarla it tells me that /dev/xfs0 doesn't exist. So
> > i run xfs_makedev which doesnt work.
> 
> xfs_makedev is made to be called from modload/kldload, if you just run
> `xfs_makedev' it won't work.
> 
> > Then I tried making the device node
> > myself with mknod /dev/xfs0 c 3 0.
> 
> Where did you get `3' from?  That's probably not the correct major
> device number.  It should have gotten printed when the kld was loaded
> (and it's typically 128).
> 
> > Now I get "device not configured".
> 
> That's probably because it's using the wrong device major number.
> 
> Can you try removing /dev/xfs0, make-deving it again with the number
> that got printed on the console and syslog when you loaded the KLD and
> telling us what happened then?  And what major number you got.
> 
> I'm sorry for the startarla script currently not working as
> automatically as we would like it to.  This is due to a number of
> reasons and I'll make it better.
> 
> /assar


I got the 3 from looking at xfs_makedev and being stupid at the same
time. $3 just didn't click for some reason...

I tried mknod with 128 and now it works. Well, it mounts anyway. Now I'm
off to reread the rest of the instructions. 

Thanks for the help. Sorry to bug ya with such a stupid problem.

-Brandon


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