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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: wd1 bad144 woes & workaround (& another idea)
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Date: 13 Aug 92 11:10:14 GMT
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In article <1992Aug13.001403.10404@bitcave.in-berlin.de>, jdb@bitcave.in-berlin.de (Joern D. Busch) writes:
> bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes:
> >swapon: wd1b: device not configured and mount complained in a very similar
> >fashion.
> 
> I'm not really sure about the necessity of this, but does your config
> file include something like:
> config	"386bsd"	root on wd0 swap on wd0 and wd1

Yes.
I was talking about re-booting the next morning.
BTW to those who don't know yet - just adding that line to your configuration
certainly does NOT do the trick - install Tom's patches to fd.c, wd.c,
ioconf.c and the config program first...

-Bernard
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