From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 3 01:06:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA24335 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 01:06:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA24293 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 01:06:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA22962; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 01:06:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 01:06:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: satnam cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't logon to system anymore In-Reply-To: <3574F362.A95D6F69@direct.ca> 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 Tue, 2 Jun 1998, satnam wrote: > Hi > > Some guy told me to issue the following command to automatically mount > the devices on my computer running FreeBSD 2.2.2 "MAKEDEV all" and now > when I rebooted the computer, I get the following messages: Whoever told you that was a nut; makedev all has been broken for ages. > I'm not quite sure what happened; I can't logon as a user anymore. > > > Would somebody be kind enough tell provide me with insight as what might > have happened and how I can fixit. 1. Boot single user. (type -s at the boot: prompt) 2. At the # prompt type `mount -u /' 3. cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV wd0s1; ./MAKEDEV wd0s2; (repeat for wd0s3 and s4) 4. `mount -a' 5. `exit' Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message