> Niklas> But... the root partition still fails to mount :-)
> 
> Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgh!!
> 
> It was config.new that was busted!  In my config.new/sem.c there are
> uses of the constant "8" instead of MAXPARTITIONS.  When I found this
> and changed it everything worked OK!  I wonder if this is fixed in
> -current?  I'm still at 941225 sources.

A similar fix was made to the NetBSD 1.0 config.new.  (actually it was
substantially different, but it worked just fine...  8-)

Unfortunately, it is _not_ appropriate to just change 8 to
MAXPARTITONS -- because that hard-codes a machine-dependent constant
into an otherwise machine-independent binary.

A m68k config.new binary built on, say, an amiga should be able to run
correctly on an amiga, on a mac, on a da30, and a sun3, and should be
able to correctly generate configuration files for _any_ machine which
uses config.new.

hardcoding '8' breaks this.


I've looked at the problem (twice in fact), and did not find an 'easy'
or 'nice' solution either time...



chris