From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 24 16:25:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA06878 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 16:25:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ocala.cs.miami.edu (ocala.cs.miami.edu [129.171.34.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA06869 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 16:25:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ocala.cs.miami.edu by ocala.cs.miami.edu via SMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/940406.SGI) id TAA08617; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 19:25:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 19:25:18 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" To: Greg Pavelcak cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recover from make world goof? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk You need to remount / as a r/w file system. To do this, type mount -u /. Then you can remake your disk slices. -Joe Clarke On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Greg Pavelcak wrote: > Hello, > > I got through 'make world' and copied/merged /etc files, remade > devices with sh MAKEDEV all, but apparently forgot to remake > some old devices. When I reboot I get > > /dev/wd0s1f: no such file or directory > can't stat /dev/wd0s1f > > It puts me into single user mode. Running fsck there just gives > similar messages. If I cd to /dev and try to make this > > sh MAKEDEV wd0s1 > > I get > > rm: wd0s1: read only file system > rm: rwd0s1: read only file system > mknod: wd0s1: file exists > mknod: rwd0s1: file exists > > A sample of ls -l shows my old slices standing out. For example: > > brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 24 Sep 24 17:50 wd3a > > looks pretty normal, but > > brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 0x00020012 Sep 24 17:50 wd0s1 > > seems weird. > > Can anyone help me? I've been trying to install -current for a week. > > Thanks. > > Greg > > > > >