Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 20:22:35 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting devfs on /dev Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970111201640.307E-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970111115710.davidn@labs.blaze.net.au>
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On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, David Nugent wrote: > J Wunsch writes: > > As John Fieber wrote: > > > panic: ffs_mountroot: can't set up bdevvp for root > > Are you sure everything has been built correctly? > > FWIW, it happens here too. It seems that devfs does not (yet) > create the device nodes for hard disks correctly. It may be > related to having the FreeBSD slice on a separate partition > (in my case it was sd1s2). I've recently built a new root > on sd0 using sd0x devices and not sd0xsNx, so I will give it > another try when I next do a kernel build. FWIW, When I boot on a kernel with DEVFS, but without DEVFS_ROOT, then mount devfs, the all the disk entries show up correctly. Booting on a DEVFS_ROOT kernel still panics though. -john
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