Error on "root device?"
Kenneth H. Jacker
khj at uncecs.edu
Wed Mar 7 00:06:39 AEST 1990
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 at ecsvax.uncecs.edu
Dept of Math Sciences BITNET: khj at ecsvax
Appalachian State Univ
Boone, NC 28608
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