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Date:      Sat, 13 May 2000 21:18:12 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl>
Cc:        Manfred Antar <mantar@pacbell.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MAKEDEV Warning ??? 
Message-ID:  <95933.958245492@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 May 2000 21:07:31 %2B0200." <20000513210731.C31594@lucifer.bart.nl> 

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In message <20000513210731.C31594@lucifer.bart.nl>, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werv
en writes:
>-On [20000513 21:06], Manfred Antar (mantar@pacbell.net) wrote:
>>I get this in boot mesgs and I don't know how to fix it.
>>Device char-major=13 minor=0 opened in block mode, convert to char mode
>>with /dev/MAKEDEV before 2000-07-01
>
>There is a bug somewhere in the rootmount code.
>
>I just lack the expertise to find out where it is.

Actually I think this is an indication of really old boot blocks.

The old bootblocks passed in a Bmajor number for the root device.

Could you try to update your bootblocks with the disklabel
program and see if that stops the warning Manfred ?


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