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Missing Devices from FreeBSD 5.2.1 to 5.3

Mon, 28 Mar 2005

I just upgraded from FreeBSD 5.2.1 to 5.3 and encountered the following symtoms:

Mar 28 11:50:52 tub init: getty repeating too quickly on port
/dev/ttyv8, sleeping 30 secs

After a little research (thank Google) I found an entry in freebsddiary.org where the following 2 lines were missing from the 5.2.1 GENERIC kernel config file:

device          mem             # Memory and kernel memory devices
device          io              # I/O device

I've added these back into my custom kernel file, rebuilt the kernel, and the problem went away.