khj@uncecs.edu (Kenneth H. Jacker) (03/06/90)
Hardware: VAX-11/750; RA80 & RA81 We've just finished the published tahoe installation procedure using our current 4.3BSD system as a base. We placed all of the tahoe system in the last partition of the RA81 (ra1h). The new (GENERIC) kernel was booted using, : ra(0,3)vmunix after I swapped the "drive buttons" so that the RA81 was drive #0, and the RA80 became drive #1. Autoconfig spotted most of our devices including the uda50, ra0 and our DELUA. The kernel then asked for the "root device", and here's where a problem arose. I tried "ra0*", "ra00*", and even "ra0", but each gave the same error message: use hp%d, up%d, ra%d, rb%d, rl%d, hk%d or kra%d. I never had this problem on 4.3 kernels, so am wondering if something is different with tahoe. Any ideas will be most appreciated! -- Kenneth H. Jacker Domain: khj@ecsvax.uncecs.edu Dept of Math Sciences BITNET: khj@ecsvax Appalachian State Univ Boone, NC 28608
muller@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Keith Muller) (03/07/90)
In article <1990Mar6.140639.7408@uncecs.edu>, khj@uncecs.edu (Kenneth H. Jacker) writes: > Autoconfig spotted most of our devices including the uda50, ra0 and our > DELUA. The kernel then asked for the "root device", and here's where a > problem arose. I tried "ra0*", "ra00*", and even "ra0", but each gave > the same error message: > > use hp%d, up%d, ra%d, rb%d, rl%d, hk%d or kra%d. A small bug in vax/swapgeneric.c Keith Muller University of California, San Diego muller@ucsd.edu *** bad/vax/swapgeneric.c Tue Jun 7 10:07:53 1988 --- good/vax/swapgeneric.c Tue Feb 7 20:35:44 1989 *************** *** 81,94 **** printf("root device? "); gets(name); for (gc = genericconf; gc->gc_driver; gc++) ! for (cp = name, gp = gc->gc_name; *cp == *gp; cp++, gp++) ! if (*gp == 0) goto gotit; printf( "use hp%%d, up%%d, ra%%d, rb%%d, rl%%d, hk%%d or kra%%d\n"); goto retry; gotit: ! if (*cp < '0' || *cp > '9') { printf("bad/missing unit number\n"); goto retry; } --- 81,94 ---- printf("root device? "); gets(name); for (gc = genericconf; gc->gc_driver; gc++) ! for (cp = name, gp = gc->gc_name; *cp == *gp; cp++) ! if (*++gp == 0) goto gotit; printf( "use hp%%d, up%%d, ra%%d, rb%%d, rl%%d, hk%%d or kra%%d\n"); goto retry; gotit: ! if (*++cp < '0' || *cp > '9') { printf("bad/missing unit number\n"); goto retry; } *************** *** 96,101 **** --- 96,102 ---- unit = 10 * unit + *cp++ - '0'; if (*cp == '*') swaponroot++; + goto found; } for (gc = genericconf; gc->gc_driver; gc++) { #if NMBA > 0