From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 21 00:52:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA21442 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:52:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hen.scotland.net (hen.scotland.net [194.247.65.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA21428 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:52:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@timog.prestel.co.uk) Received: from e2c2p36.scotland.net ([148.176.236.100] helo=timog.prestel.co.uk) by hen.scotland.net with esmtp (Exim 1.90 #5) for current@freebsd.org id 0zL0k8-0007lM-00; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 08:50:45 +0100 Received: (qmail 1037 invoked by uid 1002); 21 Sep 1998 07:40:17 -0000 Message-ID: <19980921084017.A976@prestel.co.uk> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 08:40:17 +0100 From: Timo Geusch To: Joachim Kuebart Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs boot problems References: <199809202138.XAA00555@> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: <199809202138.XAA00555@>; from Joachim Kuebart on Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 11:38:44PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 11:38:44PM +0200, Joachim Kuebart wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble booting with devfs. To me it looks like the kernel > doesn't find the device entry for the boot device because it hangs > (reset switch...) after announcing 'changing root device to...' > > I put the devfs entry first in my /etc/fstab to no avail. Now I feel > stuck. > > Did I get something wrong? A pointer to some docu would probably > suffice... > > cu Jo Jo, please see the thread I kicked of lately - labelled 'DEVFS and SLICE'. I had nearly the same symptoms showing. Reason for my non-working -current was that I was running with an initially empty /dev. If this is not the case, try remaking all devices in /dev (without running devfs; dig out an old -stable fixit floppy; did it for me) by first doing a MAKEDEV all then doing a MAKEDEV [wd|da]* (whereever your partitions sit) to recreate the disk slices. That did it for me - after 4 days of plaing around. Grrr. Timo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message