Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:57:48 -0500 (EST) From: Dexnation Holodream <dex@wankers.net> To: Gary Algier <gaa@dgms.com> Cc: Mark Ibell <marki@ihug.co.nz>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.6 Help Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980327105609.6910A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <351BCA7F.26F53343@dgms.com>
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Ok...here's the final word:
There are 3 ways you are guaranteed to suceed...the way mentioned here,
booting from a floppy, or booting your old kernel, making your changes,
and booting the new kernel again. All are valid methods. Pick your
poison :)
-Jon :)
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Gary Algier wrote:
> 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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