Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
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>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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





Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.SUN.3.91.970130112113.11423A-100000>