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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!kannel!news From: ats@lut.fi (Ari Suutari) Subject: Do YOU think that this generates correct kernel ? Sender: news@lut.fi (Usenet News) Message-ID: <1992Jul28.151518.18102@lut.fi> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 15:15:18 GMT Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Keywords: kernel config Lines: 56 Hello again .... My 386bsd works fine, but I run into possible problem when I compiled new kernels for my machine. I specify disks (lines have been taken from GENERICISA configuration file) as follows: controller wd0 at isa? .... disk wd0 at wd0 drive 0 disk wd1 at wd0 drive 1 controller fd0 at isa? disk fd0 at fd0 drive 0 disk fd1 at fd0 drive 1 This file produces a working kernel. But if I look at the wd.h (for example) file at /sys/compile/MY_HOST there is a line which states: #define NWD 3 I think that this is becouse the config utility ses three lines containing "wd". This is incorrect, since I have only 2 disks configured. Same problem, of course, exists for "fd" too. In release 0.0, I think that I had something like this in my configuration file: controller wd0 at isa? disk dk0 at wd0 drive 0 disk dk1 at wd0 drive 1 This doesn't work for release 0.1. When I boot, I got messages for swap device not being configured (even if I say "config ... swap on dk0"). I think that the controller name (wd) and disk names (dk in 0.0, now wd) should be different and that the later example here is more correct (if I look at Ultrix machines at work, they name the controller as "sii" and disks "rz"). This is not a serious problem but it has been puzzling me for some time, since I cannot figure out what would be the correct way for 386BSD to this (a small problem, no big ones ... that means 386BSD is an excellent OS ...) I'd like to hear about any suggestions/opinions to this. Ari -- Ari Suutari ats@lut.fi, ari@hilti.lpr.carel.fi Lappeenranta Finland