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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Partitioning Question
Date: 10 Aug 1995 09:21:39 +0200
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Tundra Tim Daneliuk <tundra@ct.covia.com> wrote:
>... When I did
>the install, the partitioning/labeling process decided that the root
>filesys was to be /dev/sd1s2a and swap on /dev/sd1s2b. However no
>such devices exist in the /dev directory. The closest is sd1s1
>through sd1s4. Oddly enough, the fstab generated by the install
>mounts root on /dev/sd1a !!? That seems to mount OK, but swapon
>complains about not being able to find /dev/sd1s2b (as it should).
>
>What the $%^&*( is going on here. It seems that the install process
>only partially understands slices. How do I correct the problem?
By manually MAKEDEV'ing them.
I think the installing process is not smart enough about making weird
slice devs itself, it rather relies for the dev entries already being
in place.
The root on /dev/sd1a is a well-documented lack of the _bootstrap_
that doesn't yet understand slices, hence always uses the
``compatibility slice''. This is mentioned in the installation docs.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)