Subject: install/19307: incorrect major device ID numbers on rootfs.tgz /dev filesystem for sparc 1.6 install
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <stradt@uga.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/06/2002 16:50:28
>Number: 19307
>Category: install
>Synopsis: incorrect major device ID numbers on rootfs.tgz /dev filesystem for sparc 1.6 install
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: install-manager
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Dec 06 16:51:00 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Chris Stradtman
>Release: 1.6
>Organization:
Centaur Lab At University of Georgia
>Environment:
>Description:
The /dev filesystem on the sparc 1.6 rootfs.tgz has the sd devices major
device number set to 0. I suspect it needs to be 7. This prevents the
installation script from finding any drives to install the OS on.
>How-To-Repeat:
try to do a net install following the documentation explicitly
>Fix:
unpack the base.tgz set into another directory. Copy the MAKEDEV script over to the /dev on the diskless export for the install. Run the MAKEDEV
all or MAKEDEV sd0 or any other combo that will recreate the devices.
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