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1.1     ! root        1: .TH AUTOCONF 4 5/10/81
        !             2: .UC 4
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: autoconf \- diagnostics from autoconfiguartion code
        !             5: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !             6: When UNIX bootstraps it probes the innards of the machine it is running
        !             7: on and locates controllers, drives, and other devices, printing out
        !             8: what it finds on the console.  This procedure is driven by a system
        !             9: configuration table which is processed by
        !            10: .IR config (8)
        !            11: and compiled into each kernel.
        !            12: .PP
        !            13: VERSABUS devices are located by probing to see if their control-status
        !            14: registers respond.  If not, they are silently ignored.  If the control
        !            15: status register responds but the device cannot be made to interrupt,
        !            16: a diagnostic warning will be printed on the console and the device
        !            17: will not be available to the system.
        !            18: .PP
        !            19: A generic system may be built which picks its root device at boot time
        !            20: as the ``best'' available device.
        !            21: If such a system is booted with the RB_ASKNAME option of (see
        !            22: .IR reboot (2v)),
        !            23: then the name of the root device is read from the console terminal at boot
        !            24: time, and any available device may be used.
        !            25: .SH SEE ALSO
        !            26: config(8)
        !            27: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
        !            28: .PP
        !            29: \fB%s%d at vba address %o vec %o\fR.  The device %s%d, e.g. fsd0
        !            30: was found on the bus at control-status register address %o and with
        !            31: device vector %o.
        !            32: .PP
        !            33: \fB%s%d at vba address %o didn't interrupt\fR.  The device did not interrupt,
        !            34: likely because it is broken, hung, or not the kind of device it is advertised
        !            35: to be.
        !            36: .PP
        !            37: \fB%s%d at %s%d slave %d\fR.
        !            38: Which would look like ``smd0 at vd0 slave 0'',
        !            39: where \fBsmd0\fR is the name of a disk drive and \fBvd0\fR is the name
        !            40: of the controller.
        !            41: .SH BUGS

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