From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 13 12:18:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from bogon.freebsd.dk (bogon.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D096E37B5EA for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 12:18:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk ([212.242.127.222]) by bogon.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA18488; Sat, 13 May 2000 21:18:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost.freebsd.dk [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA95935; Sat, 13 May 2000 21:18:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Cc: Manfred Antar , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV Warning ??? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 13 May 2000 21:07:31 +0200." <20000513210731.C31594@lucifer.bart.nl> Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 21:18:12 +0200 Message-ID: <95933.958245492@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message