On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Sean Chittenden wrote: > > > Ah! Figured it out after reading through init's src: /dev didn't > > > exist therefore the machine wouldn't start. No good. I may find > > > a place to stick this got'cha in the docs or add an mkdir() call > > > to init. > > > > mkdir(2) on / is not going to work if / is readonly. The kernel > > actually tries to do a vop_mkdir() already, I think. The eventual > > solution is probably a rootfs (blaim mux). > > Well, I haven't tested this, but I think you're right that it's nmount() > that's failing and the lack of a check on it's return value. I haven't > tested this beyond compiling it, but I suspect it'll work and fix this > corner case. -sc
Per our out-of-band conversation, it looks like this won't work because of a lack of /dev. It seems like the most reasonable solution is to generate a kernel warning message if the kernel-side devfs mount attempt fails. If we cause init to fail, the kernel will panic, and I can't quite decide if (a) the system hanging, or (b) the kernel panicking is a better answer. :-) Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Associates Laboratories _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
