On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, David Brownlee wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Robert Gash wrote:
> 
> > PS- Tip for the wise: create a /kern directory on your NFS root before you
> > boot your machine as it appears that NetBSD can't detect your HD devices
> > if /kern dosen't exsist.
> 
> 	This seems bizarre - I can understand if fstab tries to mount
> 	/kern it will fail to mount it, and leave yu in single user
> 	mode, but it will definitely not affect the detection of any
> 	devices...

I remember this, too.  I thing the installer tries to grok your mass
storage by grepping /kern/msgbuf or such...

I don't think I ever spoke up about it because I've run into similar
things with other stuff in the past... perhaps it's something that should
be verified and potentially fixed.

-Jon
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