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From: tls@rek.tjls.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.1 upgrade questions
Date: 2 Jan 1996 15:36:53 -0500
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In article <4cc2tg$jrr@msunews.cl.msu.edu>,
David W Wieringa <wieringa@cps.msu.edu> wrote:
>[ Article crossposted from comp.unix.bsd.misc ]
>[ Author was K.T. Wieringa ]
>[ Posted on Mon, 1 Jan 96 23:25:59 CST ]
>
>
>Doing the 1.0 to 1.1 upgrade thing (i386) and have run into the following
>snags:
>
> 1) I haven't been able to get swapon (swapon -a) to recognize the second
> swap partition on sd1. Keep getting a "device not configured" error.
> The sd1b and rsd1b block special devices are freshly created ("MAKEDEV
> all") in /dev.
I'm doing this, and it seems to work just fine. Are you sure the machine's
seeing the partition table on sd1 correctly? Are you using a strange kernel
configuration?
I don't know if the generic swap code handles two swap partitions correctly;
I could go look, but I'd guess it doesn't. So you probably need a custom
kernel configuration to swap on two disks. From comments below, it looks like
you're running one of the INSTALL kernels, which is probably the cause of a
number of your problems. Those kernels are only meant to get you up and
running; you need to run one of the GENERIC kernels or build your own.
> 2) While I can load up XFree (3.1) ok, none of the xterms will load.
> redirecting startx stderr to a file shows that I'm getting a "Error
> 23, errno 25: Inappropriate ioctl for device" message. Again, all the
> ttyp*'s are there in /dev.
Are you sure you're not trying to use the INSTADP or INSTOTHER kernel? Those
don't have option COMPAT_43 in them, so the old-style tty ioctls won't work,
which will make xterm lose because for some reason it doesn't use termios.
> 3) Brain Buhrow had a bi-directional serial patch I was using under 1.0.
> I notice the target source file (com.c) has moved in the source tree
> and it no longer "patches" cleanly with his old 1.0 patch file. Does
> anyone know if there is an updated 1.1 patch available?
No idea, sorry.
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Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com
Where is the day that melted into one rich noise? --Thomas Wolfe