Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:49:19 -0500 From: Gary Algier <gaa@dgms.com> To: Mark Ibell <marki@ihug.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.6 Help Message-ID: <351BCA7F.26F53343@dgms.com> References: <000601bd596e$00c49600$0201a8c0@evileye.rf.org> <19980327105734.02518@iii.co.uk>
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owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 1998 at 10:49:17PM +1200, Mark Ibell wrote:
> > I've just CVsup'd to 2.2.6 Release and thought I might try updating
> > /etc & /dev as well as doing a standard make world. Oops... I have
> > FreeBSD on the second partition (wd0s2) but made the entries for wd0s1
> > instead. By that I mean wd0s1a ... wd0s1h. Now only the root
> > partition mounts, and in read only mode so I can't make the proper
> > /dev entries. So am I like totally f####d or what?
>
> To remount the / as read-write, just
>
> # mount -u /
>
[...]
I had the same problem. The command "mount -u /" will fail with the
message:
Specified device does not match mounted device.
Specifying "mount -u /dev/wd0s3a /" fails because /dev/wd0s3a does
not exist and can't be created until it is mounted read-write.
My work around was to mount another file system that could mount
correctly via the compatability devices (my zip drive: /dev/sd0)
and create the appropriate entries as:
/zip/dev/
I was then able to do "mount -u /zip/dev/wd0s3a /" and from there
I could edit /etc/fstab and do a "MAKEDEV wd0s3{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h}".
Perhaps you could put floppy in /dev/fd0 and make the devices
there. (I just happened to have a freebsd zip disk handy, but not
a freebsd floppy disk).
Now my question: I can sort of understand why the devs are not created
when one does a "MAKEDEV all" (72 entries for wd0 alone!), but why
aren't they created when one does "MAKEDEV wd0s3". The latter only
creates one (useless) entry: wd0s3.
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