From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 13 12:32:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pozo.com (pozo.com [216.101.162.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49FAE37B7F7 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 12:32:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mantar@pacbell.net) Received: from dual.pacbell.net (dual.pozo.com [216.101.162.51]) by pozo.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA00310; Sat, 13 May 2000 12:25:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mantar@pacbell.net) Message-Id: <4.3.2.3.2.20000513122249.00b3de98@pozo.com> X-Sender: null@pozo.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2.3 (Beta) Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 12:25:59 -0700 To: Poul-Henning Kamp , Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven From: Manfred Antar Subject: Re: MAKEDEV Warning ??? Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <95933.958245492@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <"Your message of Sat, 13 May 2000 21:07:31 +0200." <20000513210731.C31594@lucifer.bart.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:18 PM 5/13/2000 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >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 ? I did a disklabel -B da0 and it still happens Another thing is this is a RAID 1 disk <2 disk mirror> on a DPT RAID controller I don't know if that make a difference. Which is the dev I'm supposed to be using : rda0a, da0a, da0s1a ?? Manfred ===================== || mantar@pacbell.net || || Ph. (415) 681-6235 || ===================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message