Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 22:33:19 -0500 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org> Cc: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should UPDATING tell you to rerun MAKEDEV now? Message-ID: <199912060333.WAA15957@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 Dec 1999 22:05:13 -0400." <384B19D9.E77F7E21@vangelderen.org> References: <199912051813.aa78561@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <199912052118.OAA29838@harmony.village.org> <19991205221941.A27611@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <384B19D9.E77F7E21@vangelderen.org>
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> David Malone wrote: > > I just had the same problem as someone else on the list where I > > booted after a make world and new kernel, and then fsck reported > > the filesystems clean but mount said they were dirty. I booted > > from the old kernel, installed and ran the new MAKEDEV and the > > new kernel ran fine. This is on a 386. > > Being the other person, I basically had the same problem. I had run > MAKEDEV but an IDE disk did go bad which caused a crash which caused > /dev corruption which caused the problem I posted... > > > Phk just recommended running MAKEDEV to the othe person with this > > problem. > > I had to boot a kernel and /dev off a floppy to fix the /dev. > I've been in a similar situation, even when not in "crisis" mode, but just when installing new disk drives or moving stuff around. It's sort of annoying that you can't run MAKEDEV with just a root file system mounted. It wants to chown(8) the device nodes as they're created, but it fails since chown is in /usr/sbin, which isn't mounted. If we've got chio(1) in the root file system, couldn't we have chown there too? louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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