From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 27 08:04:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA18933 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 08:04:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wankers.net (root@host-32-96-41-161.atl.bellsouth.net [32.96.41.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA18912; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 08:04:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dex@wankers.net) Received: from localhost (dex@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wankers.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA06918; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:57:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dex@wankers.net) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:57:48 -0500 (EST) From: Dexnation Holodream X-Sender: dex@localhost To: Gary Algier cc: Mark Ibell , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.6 Help In-Reply-To: <351BCA7F.26F53343@dgms.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > > -- > Gary Algier, WB2FWZ gary.algier@srtc.com +1 609 608 2758 > DGM&S Telecom, 1025 Briggs Rd, Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054 Fax:+1 609 866 8850 > Paul Petzoldt on the renaming of Mount Washington: > "I Call it the New England Booby Trap. We see Ph.D.'s from private schools > taking kids up there in shorts. People die like flies up there!" > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message