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Date:      Sat, 11 Jan 1997 15:15:47 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mounting devfs on /dev
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.970111150344.307A-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970111201203.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, J Wunsch wrote:

> As John Fieber wrote:
> 
> > I'm running RELENG_2_2 and after twiddling the sound driver to do
> > the Right Thing for defs (which I'll submit for review), I'd like
> > to try running devfs as /dev. 
> > 
> > Soooo, what is the current wizdom on how/when to mount it?
> 
> 	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

mean?

Thanks,

-john




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