Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 20:02:34 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Reifenberger Michael EXT <Michael.Reifenberger.gp@icn.siemens.de> Cc: "'freebsd-current@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ddb panics ( getdiskbyname() issue) Message-ID: <73978.1014750154@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Feb 2002 19:59:30 %2B0100." <67E0BE167008D31185F60008C7289DA0E1313F@MCHH218E>
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In message <67E0BE167008D31185F60008C7289DA0E1313F@MCHH218E>, Reifenberger Mich
ael EXT writes:
>Hi,
>while searching the cause why "set vfs.root.mountfrom=cd9660:acd0c"
>fails I found that when I do a "show disk/ad0" (when /dev/ad0* exists)
>causes a panic: ( repeated make_dev("ad0")...)
>while "show disk/acd0" doesn't.
>
>So we have two unrelated problems here:
>1.) getdiskbyname() panics the system if the device exists.
>2.) getdiskbyname() doesn't work for acd0c.
>
>Any clues how to fix?
No trivial fixes. New code ("GEOM") will replace this entire mess
soon.
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