From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 17:27:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-ether.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.1.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F111537B4D7 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 17:27:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gmx.de (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA26374; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 02:27:51 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <39EE4006.EA90F89B@gmx.de> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 02:27:50 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help, I can't boot FreeBSD anymore References: <3.0.6.32.20001018184710.00923eb0@mail85.pair.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > To my surprise, null was actually a huge file filled with tabs. I deleted > it (rm null), then I did ln -s zero null. I think that induced your problem. /dev/zero and /dev/null arenīt identical. From /dev/MAKEDEV mknod null c 2 2; chmod 666 null mknod zero c 2 12; chmod 666 zero Sorry, but I donīt know, where in the boot process you would need /dev/null the first time, so I donīt know, where your boot hangs. I suggest to use a fixit floppy, mount / && cd /dev && ./MAKEDEV null I have no clue, why your first step didnīt send your bytes to Nirvana and instead created a normal file containing your input. Any suggestions? Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message