Subject: Re: Boot Creation Problems
To: None <tom@peiserwald.fundy.net>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/19/1998 12:35:06
"Tomas T. Peiser, CET" writes:
> I have been trying to make some custom 1.3 boot disks, but when I do 
> a make I get this error (shown below).

Looks like you don't have vnode devices configured in your kernel. If
you don't have the device support, you can't use the devices.

.pm

 The floppy checks out fine and 
> floppy3 is in /etc/disktab and  /dev/vnd0d exsists. I read thought 
> the vnconfig man page, but I don't understand what happened. 
> The error was the same for ramdisk (I commented it out to see what 
> else happened)
> 
>  Thanks in advance.
> 
>  all ===> bootfloppy
> dd if=/dev/zero of=boot.fs count=2880
> 2880+0 records in
> 2880+0 records out
> 1474560 bytes transferred in 1 secs (1474560 bytes/sec)
> vnconfig -t floppy3 -v -c /dev/vnd0d boot.fs
> vnconfig: /dev/vnd0d: opendisk: Device not configured
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> Tomas T. Peiser, CET
> Network Operator
> Fundy Communications
> tom@fundy.ca