trivial change to error message which might have saved me looking at the source. Reference: /n/sources/patch/applied/devfs-errmsg Date: Sat Jan 15 15:25:39 CET 2005 --- /sys/src/9/port/devfs.c Sat Jan 15 15:25:39 2005 +++ /sys/src/9/port/devfs.c Sat Jan 15 15:25:39 2005 @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ cclose(*ccp); *ccp = nil; if (strncmp(confstr, Cfgstr, strlen(Cfgstr)) != 0) - error("Bad config: should begin with: fsdev\\n"); + error("Bad config, first line must be: 'fsdev:\\n'"); kstrdup(&c, confstr + strlen(Cfgstr)); memset(confstr, 0, sizeof(confstr)); for (p = c; p != nil && *p != 0; p = e){