Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 17:12:00 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Heffner <spock@techfour.net> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: error with install, "Unable to make device nodes..." Message-ID: <XFMail.991220171200.spock@techfour.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912201551160.70795-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>
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On 20-Dec-99 Bill Fumerola said: | On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Mike Heffner wrote: | |> |> Unable to make device node of /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! |> The creation of filesystems will be aborted. |> |> If I switch to the second virtual terminal it says: |> |> DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem |> DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions |> DEBUG: MakeDev: Unable to lookup user "root". |> [ last line repeated several times ] | | <aol> | Me too. | </aol> | | This is not a Danish thing however, this fails with scsi drives as well. | Well, after some more tests...running sysinstall many times over ;(...I've found that it breaks between the 12/16 and 12/17 snapshots. Not sure where to start looking for problems though. I checked MAKEDEV (since the error seemed to be coming from that) but didn't see anything in that time period. What else is there to check? Later, --------------------------------- Mike Heffner <spock@techfour.net> Fredericksburg, VA ICQ# 882073 Date: 20-Dec-99 Time: 17:06:27 --------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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