From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 17 18:43: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D42737B68A for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:43:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joseph@nwlink.com) Received: from ip140.r14.d.bel.nwlink.com (ip140.r14.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.175.140]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA13278; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:42:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:38:08 -0800 (PST) From: R Joseph Wright X-Sender: joseph@mammalia.sea To: Sverrir Valgeirsson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, R Joseph Wright Subject: Re: I've lost my devices! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Sverrir Valgeirsson wrote: > > Somebody posted a message earlier today stating that one should remake all devices > > after upgrading to 4.0 from 3.x. Never do this. Now, I cannot get into > > my system because the important devices wd0s3a, wd0s3e, and wd0s3f were > > not remade. Can I make these with mknod or something? Can someone > > please help me get back in? > > I just upgraded and > FreeBSD4.0 seems to have a new disksystem. My drives are now called > ad2s1a and so on.. You probably have to change the /etc/fstab I ended up reinstalling and upgrading and I didn't do the foolishness of recreating all my devices this time and it boots wonderfully. I'm having other weird problems though. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message