NetBSD Problem Report #10411

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From: kre@munnari.OZ.AU
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Subject: MAKEDEV should live on the ramdisk in install kernels
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>Number:         10411
>Category:       port-alpha
>Synopsis:       Incufficient cd devices in /dev, and no MAKEDEV
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    port-alpha-maintainer
>State:          analyzed
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jun 21 23:49:00 +0000 2000
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Thu Jan 12 18:35:01 +0000 2012
>Originator:     Robert Elz
>Release:        NetBSD-current 20000527
>Organization:
	University of Melbourne
>Environment:

System: NetBSD lavender.cs.mu.OZ.AU 1.4ZD NetBSD 1.4ZD (LAVENDER) #2: Wed Jun 21 08:26:46 EST 2000 kre@lavender.cs.mu.OZ.AU:/usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/LAVENDER alpha


>Description:
	There aren't enough cd devices made in the alpha
	install kernel (for some of us, anyway...)  And there
	is no MAKEDEV to easily add more.
>How-To-Repeat:
	Attempt to install alpha NetBSD from cd2
>Fix:
	There are plenty of free inodes in the alpha install ramdisk,
	so one way would be to just put more cd devices there - that
	would be the easiest solution for the immediate problem, but
	not the right one - eventually someone else will be missing
	some other device they need.   Instead include MAKEDEV (or a
	variant of it that will work using the tools on the ramdisk)
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: "Erik E. Fair" <fair@NetBSD.org>
To: NetBSD GNATS Bug Tracking System <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: port-alpha/10411
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 15:04:47 -0800

 The MAKEDEV "minimal" target in -current creates cd0 and cd1.

 How many models of Alpha have more than two CD-ROM drives?

 	Erik <fair@netbsd.org>
State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended
State-Changed-By: gdt@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:07:56 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
A lot has changed since the PR was filed.  The submitter no longer has the
hardware available.  While there probably should be cd2 and cd3 in the default,
it might be that MAKEDEV is available and this isn't a real problem.


State-Changed-From-To: suspended->open
State-Changed-By: dholland@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:36:33 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
Anyone with an alpha can check this out, so it doesn't need to be suspended.


From: Julian Coleman <jdc@coris.org.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: dholland@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: port-alpha/10411 (Incufficient cd devices in /dev, and no MAKEDEV)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 23:23:16 +0100

 Hi,

 There is no change with the netbsd-4 install kernel.  It is, however,
 possible to use /sbin/mknod to create the device files manually.

 Note that the standard /dev/MAKEDEV also contains only cd0 and cd1.

 J

 -- 
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         http://www.netbsd.org/        /   http://www.newbigginsailingclub.org/

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: port-alpha-maintainer@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, kre@munnari.OZ.AU
Subject: Re: port-alpha/10411 (Incufficient cd devices in /dev, and no MAKEDEV)
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:19:29 +0000

 On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 10:25:02PM +0000, Julian Coleman wrote:
  >  There is no change with the netbsd-4 install kernel.  It is, however,
  >  possible to use /sbin/mknod to create the device files manually.
  >  
  >  Note that the standard /dev/MAKEDEV also contains only cd0 and cd1.

 After some discussion, the conclusion was that since the alpha install
 isn't size-limited, we should ship a couple more device nodes and also
 include MAKEDEV.

 ...now someone who actually has an alpha just needs to do it. :-/

 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland@netbsd.org

State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed
State-Changed-By: dholland@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:34:20 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
problem is thoroughly understood


From: Sergey Svishchev <svs@ropnet.ru>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-alpha/10411
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 15:04:06 +0400

 There's an emulator in pkgsrc-wip: es40.

 -- 
 Sergey Svishchev

From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, svs@ropnet.ru
Cc: port-alpha-maintainer@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
    netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, kre@munnari.OZ.AU
Subject: re: port-alpha/10411
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:12:40 +1100

 >  There's an emulator in pkgsrc-wip: es40.

 did you try it?  last i tried it didn't work very well.  certainly
 not good enough to boot or test netbsd, or even really close.


 .mrg.

From: Sergey Svishchev <svs@ropnet.ru>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-alpha/10411
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 14:49:29 +0400

 On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 06:12:40AM +1100, matthew green wrote:
 >>  There's an emulator in pkgsrc-wip: es40.
 >
 >did you try it?  last i tried it didn't work very well.  certainly
 >not good enough to boot or test netbsd, or even really close.

 Yesterday's cvs snapshot works well enough to launch 4.0.1 installer.

 -- 
 Sergey Svishchev

From: Sergey Svishchev <svs@ropnet.ru>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-alpha/10411
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:16:43 +0400

 ... and install completes, producing working 4.0.1 system.

 Some screen corruption happens while sets are extracted, though.

 -- 
 Sergey Svishchev

>Unformatted:

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