Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 11:22:25 -0800 (PST) From: Howard Lew <hlew@sequence.Stanford.EDU> To: James Fox <jlfox+@pitt.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MAKEDEV and boot problems Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970130112113.11423A-100000@vegemite.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <UmwBmfa8XfYH0=lV00@pitt.edu>
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On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, James Fox wrote: > > Should have left "well enough alone", but I didn't. > I have been running 2.1.0 troublefree for months and > wanted to get it to recognize my soundblaster card. > Apparently, I should have merely done "MAKEDEV snd0", > but I decided to build a new kernel in the process > to tidy things up. Following chapter 10 in Inst & > Running FreeBSD I got confused at the MAKEDEV section > and did a "MAKEDEV all", which I think I will regret. > I wasn't worried when I rebooted to try the new > kernel since the book says "don't panic" if your > new kernel doesn't work, just reboot with kernel.old. > Well, here's what I'm getting... (I'm booting from > drive 1 of an Ultrastor SCCSI controller) > > /dev/sd1s1b no such file or directory > .. > /dev/sd1s1f no such file or directory > I think the fix here is to just use the MAKEDEV to make those files in /dev when it drops you to a shell. Then halt and reboot and all should be fine. > Can't stat /dev/sd1s1f > Automatic file system check failed! > > Unfortunately, this state puts me into a read-only > file system, from which I can't even see > /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MYKERNEL and wouldn't be able to > fix it anyway. kernel.old produces the same results. > > Why is the system looking for sd1s1b and sd1s1f ? > What did I do wrong and most importantly, what do > I do now? :-( > > Thanks, > --Jim Fox > > > ---- || Shoppers Network BEST PRICES, FULLY x86 COMPATIBLE & FAST!!! || PO BOX 16627 Cyrix 686s now available! || San Francisco, CA 94116 Email - info@shoppersnet.com | ------------------------------> WWW - http://www2.shoppersnet.com -------------------------------> WWW - http://www.shoppersnet.com/shopping
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