Subject: Re: NetBSD/i386 1.0-BETA binaries
To: NetBSD-current Users <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Hellmuth Michaelis <hm@hcswork.hcs.de>
List: current-users
Date: 10/17/1994 15:44:58
>From the keyboard of Ian Fitchet:
> 1. how do you configure vnode devices into the kernel? I
> wanted to create some boot floppies for my colleague but they require
> vnconfig. The only reference I then found to vnd* was in swap devices
> in two of the sample kernel configs and that vnd has major number 14.
> My symptom is, when vnconfig is invoked it complains that "device not
> configured". (Even after rebooting on one of those kernels). MAKEDEV
> produced the devices, but it strikes me as a kernel side problem.
> VNODEPAGER is defined in the kernel.
I reported this long ago to (was it Charles ?), MAKEDEV generates (or better
_generated_ at that time) wrong major device numbers for vnode devices, look
at conf.c for the proper major number, then rerun mknod by hand.
hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Hamburg, Europe
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