From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun May 13 12:30: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F407B37B424 for ; Sun, 13 May 2001 12:30:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f4DJU2e31232; Sun, 13 May 2001 12:30:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 12:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200105131930.f4DJU2e31232@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Szilveszter Adam Subject: Re: misc/27303: Error during Commit: Unable to make device node for /dev/X in /dev! Reply-To: Szilveszter Adam Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR misc/27303; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Szilveszter Adam To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Dahlqvist?= Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/27303: Error during Commit: Unable to make device node for /dev/X in /dev! Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 21:27:41 +0200 On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 09:11:37PM +0200, André Dahlqvist wrote: > Guilty as charged. All my primary partions are taken with Linux partitions, :-) Does happen sometimes:-) > so an extended partition was all I had. Shouldn't FreeBSD warn you about this > though? At least if you set this partition bootable... Yes, I think warning would be reasonable (btw is this limitation anywhere in the docs at all? I could not find it with a quick glance anywhere and the fact that "it is common knowledge on the mailing lists" certainly does not qualify as "documented"...) > Thanks for your quick help! You're welcome! I hope you will be able to start using FreeBSD soon and will have a favourable experience! > > - Also you should be aware that your root (/) parition should go before the > > 1024th cylinder on your hdd or you may have problems booting. But that > > comes later:-) > > I was planning on using LILO to boot FreeBSD too, like I boot linux. OK, that will work. -- Regards: Szilveszter ADAM Szeged University Szeged Hungary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message