Re: Dockstar (like SHEEVAPLUG) panics at init with -current after Aug 31, 2012

[Nick Hudson <nick.hudson%gmx.co.uk@localhost>]

On 10/02/2013 14:28, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 1:22 AM, Nick Hudson <nick.hudson%gmx.co.uk@localhost> 
> wrote:
> > On 05/01/2013 17:03, Nick Hudson wrote:
> > > On 12/19/12 20:30, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
> > > > WARNING: clock lost 4734 days
> > > > WARNING: using filesystem time
> > > > WARNING: CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
> > > > warning: no /dev/console
> > >
> > > The real problem is related to the missing /dev/console
> >
> > This was fixed yesterday by this commit.
> >
> > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2013/01/26/msg040906.html
> I synched my current source last night and built a kernel, and it
> still panics. This is on a semi-production machine so I need time to
> get the output for it.
>
> This particular boot disk does not have /dev populated. The "old"
> kernel from Aug 23, 2012 (which I'm still using) seems to recognize
> this and mounts /dev over a tempfs.
>
> Andy

Make sure your /dev/MAKEDEV is made with

#       NetBSD: MAKEDEV.tmpl,v 1.161 2013/01/26 18:44:21 apb Exp

or your MAKEDEV has

                    mknod -m 600 -g 0 -u 0 temp_console c 2 0
Nick