Re: gpt howto?

[Jukka Marin <jmarin%embedtronics.fi@localhost>]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 05:32:49PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> I just had a look at it, and it looks like the gpt error message is
> misleading. ktrace -i shows:
>  15574      1 gpt      NAMI  "/dev/drvctl"
>  15574      1 gpt      RET   open -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
>  15574      1 gpt      CALL  close(3)
>  15574      1 gpt      RET   close 0
>  15574      1 gpt      CALL  write(2,0xbfbfdd80,5)
>  15574      1 gpt      GIO   fd 2 wrote 5 bytes
>      "gpt: "
>  15574      1 gpt      RET   write 5
>  15574      1 gpt      CALL  write(2,0xbfbfddb0,0x1d)
>  5574      1 gpt      GIO   fd 2 wrote 29 bytes
>      "unable to open device 'rwd0d'"
> 
> So I guess you don't have 'pseudo-device drvctl' in your kernel config
> file ...

Yes, so it seems.

On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 10:41:34AM -0600, jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost wrote:
> Do you have 'pseudo-device drvctl' in your kernel?  You need it.

No, I didn't - and gpt(8) doesn't mention it.

I added drvctl and now gpt worked - do I also need to greate a wedge
on it before using newfs?  Guess so..  this is all new to me.

Thanks for the help!

  -jm