Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 00:20:14 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting devfs on /dev Message-ID: <Mutt.19970112002014.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970111150344.307A-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>; from John Fieber on Jan 11, 1997 15:15:47 -0500 References: <Mutt.19970111201203.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.BSI.3.95.970111150344.307A-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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As John Fieber wrote: > > options DEVFS_ROOT > > > > This will pass -r to init(8), which in turn causes it to mount DEVFS. > > So far so good. Now, what does: > > panic: ffs_mountroot: can't set up bdevvp for root Are you sure everything has been built correctly? Just for grins, i've rebuilt the kernel on my scratchbox (this time the diskless one, it was simpler for me). It worked out of the box. j@uncle 53% uname -a FreeBSD uncle 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #9: Sun Jan 12 00:00:11 MET 1997 j@uriah.heep.sax.de:/usr/diskless/uncle-root/sys-cur/compile/UNCLE i386 j@uncle 54% /sbin/mount 192.168.0.1:/usr/diskless/uncle-root on / devfs on /dev (local, noexec, read-only) uriah:/usr on /usr (read-only) uriah:/home on /home mfs:20 on /tmp (asynchronous, local) procfs on /proc (local, read-only) j@uncle 55% ls /dev /dev: bpf0% fd0.820# log@ rfd0.1480% rvn4% ttyp2% ttyvb% console% fd0a# lpctl0% rfd0.1720% rvn5% ttyp3% ttyvc% cuaa0% fd0b# lpt0% rfd0.720% rvn6% ttyp4% ttyvd% cuaa1% fd0c# mem% rfd0.800% rvn7% ttyp5% ttyve% cuaia0% fd0d# null% rfd0.820% speaker% ttyp6% ttyvf% cuaia1% fd0e# ptyp0% rfd0a% stderr% ttyp7% urandom% cuala0% fd0f# ptyp1% rfd0b% stdin% ttyv0% vn0# cuala1% fd0g# ptyp2% rfd0c% stdout% ttyv1% vn1# drum% fd0h# ptyp3% rfd0d% tty% ttyv2% vn2# fd/ gsc0% ptyp4% rfd0e% ttyd0% ttyv3% vn3# fd0# gsc0d% ptyp5% rfd0f% ttyd1% ttyv4% vn4# fd0.1200# gsc0p% ptyp6% rfd0g% ttyid0% ttyv5% vn5# fd0.1440# gsc0pd% ptyp7% rfd0h% ttyid1% ttyv6% vn6# fd0.1480# io% random% rvn0% ttyld0% ttyv7% vn7# fd0.1720# klog% rfd0% rvn1% ttyld1% ttyv8% zero% fd0.720# kmem% rfd0.1200% rvn2% ttyp0% ttyv9% fd0.800# lkm% rfd0.1440% rvn3% ttyp1% ttyva% That /dev looks fairly tidied up, doesn't it? :-) Btw., i just notice that ft0 is missing, and: bpf: ppp0 attached bpf: ppp1 attached bpf: lo0 attached ...bpf1 and bpf2 seems to be missing, too. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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