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- From: ats@lut.fi (Ari Suutari)
- Subject: Do YOU think that this generates correct kernel ?
- Sender: news@lut.fi (Usenet News)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.151518.18102@lut.fi>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 15:15:18 GMT
- Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
- Keywords: kernel config
- Lines: 56
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-
- Hello again ....
-
- My 386bsd works fine, but I run into possible problem when I compiled
- new kernels for my machine. I specify disks (lines have been
- taken from GENERICISA configuration file) as follows:
-
- controller wd0 at isa? ....
- disk wd0 at wd0 drive 0
- disk wd1 at wd0 drive 1
-
- controller fd0 at isa?
- disk fd0 at fd0 drive 0
- disk fd1 at fd0 drive 1
-
- This file produces a working kernel. But if I look at the
- wd.h (for example) file at /sys/compile/MY_HOST there is a
- line which states:
-
- #define NWD 3
-
- I think that this is becouse the config utility ses three lines
- containing "wd". This is incorrect, since I have only 2 disks
- configured. Same problem, of course, exists for "fd" too.
-
- In release 0.0, I think that I had something like this in
- my configuration file:
-
- controller wd0 at isa?
- disk dk0 at wd0 drive 0
- disk dk1 at wd0 drive 1
-
- This doesn't work for release 0.1. When I boot, I got messages
- for swap device not being configured (even if I say "config ...
- swap on dk0").
-
- I think that the controller name (wd) and disk names (dk in 0.0,
- now wd) should be different and that the later example here
- is more correct (if I look at Ultrix machines at work, they
- name the controller as "sii" and disks "rz").
-
- This is not a serious problem but it has been puzzling me for
- some time, since I cannot figure out what would be the
- correct way for 386BSD to this (a small problem, no big ones ...
- that means 386BSD is an excellent OS ...)
-
- I'd like to hear about any suggestions/opinions to this.
-
-
-
- Ari
-
- --
- Ari Suutari ats@lut.fi, ari@hilti.lpr.carel.fi
- Lappeenranta
- Finland
-