Re: netbsd on vax 11/730; booting in sim

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Brad Parker wrote:

> "David Brownlee" wrote:
> > From: Brad Parker <brad%heeltoe.com@localhost>
> >
> > > I also found that when init makes an mfs /dev it runs out of inodes.
> > > Any idea how to fix that?  It's not fatal.
> >
> > That should be tunable in the source for init - look at the section that
> > creates the mfs. Alternatively you can adjust the relevant MAKEDEV target
> > so it doesn't create all the devices. Hopefully this has already been fixed
> > in current :)
>
> actually, comparing the 2.0.3 /sbin/init sources and the 5_beta sources,
> it looks like all the nice code to do that is turned off :-(
>
> and replaced with a comment "useful for testing MAKEDEV".
> plus, it's a telltail "if 0"
>
> hmm.  I wonder why that was done.

        Ah - my mistake, it was moved to /dev/MAKEDEV - which makes
        much more sense. Its a hell of a lot easier to adjust the
        parameters in the MAKEDEV script than recompile init :)

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