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From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: (lpa driver) savecore: Can't find device 1/0
Message-ID: <1993Apr26.130106.19745@gmd.de>
Sender: veit@mururoa (Holger Veit)
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Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
References: <C639Ln.7p@veda.is>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 13:01:06 GMT
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In article <C639Ln.7p@veda.is>, adam@veda.is (Adam David) writes:
|> This might not be a bug, but here goes.
|> I enabled the lpa driver for 2 parallel ports, this is the only change
|> made, and did a complete kernel rebuild. Now when savecore runs from
|> /etc/rc I get the cryptic message...
|>
|> savecore: Can't find device 1/0
|>
|> Also there is another complaint about device 1/0 but it is not logged
|> and I forget the message. It also occurs while savecore is running.
|> I have /dev/tty as device 1/0, like it should be. There was no such
|> complaint before I enabled the lpa driver. What's going on?
|>
|> --
|> Adam D. (adam@veda.is)
Is the kernel you booted /386bsd or have you called it different
(and booted via Julian's bootloader)? savecore gets confused if it
looks into /386bsd for the symbol table and uses the offset it gets
for lookup into /dev/kmem (which belongs to /386bsd.bootedkernel and
needs a different offset).
Holger
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