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Re: unknown devices being made in boot-floppies



On Wed Nov 10, 1999 at 02:03:56PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> 
> In the boot-floppies script to make the rescue disk, I think we must
> be doing something wrong, because on i386 I get the error:
> 
>  /dev/MAKEDEV: device: unknown major number for cdu31a
>  /dev/MAKEDEV: device: unknown major number for sbpcd
>  /dev/MAKEDEV: device: unknown major number for aztcd
> 
> We're trying to make /dev entries for possible CD-ROM types on i386.
> Is there a different method we should be using?  The complete device
> list for i386 we're using is:
> 
>    std tty1 tty2 tty3 tty4 ttyS0 ttyS1 ttyS2 ttyS3 hda hdb hdc hdd hde
>    hdf hdg hdh sda sdb sdc sdd sde sdf sdg sdh scd0 scd1 scd2 scd3 st0
>    st1 initrd rtc loop lp fd fd0 fd1 xda xdb eda edb sonycd mcd mcdx
>    cdu535 lmscd sbpcd aztcd bpcd

Hmm.  Seems to be a bug in base-files, which provides /sbin/MAKEDEV.  

 -Erik

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