Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 20:50:19 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> To: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help, I can't boot FreeBSD anymore Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20001018205019.00853560@mail85.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <39EE4006.EA90F89B@gmx.de> References: <3.0.6.32.20001018184710.00923eb0@mail85.pair.com>
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Thank you. The problem seems solved <whew>, though I'm not quite sure why. I decided to boot again, and went to read a book for a while. When I came back, the system was finally booted, but acted eratic. df claimed my 8 Gig drive was 108% full. I deleted entire directories, but df kept reporting the same. I ran MAKEDEV all. It recreated /dev/null, thank goodness, before it failed for lack of disk space. The hard disk LED was just churning (or rather the disk was, the LED was blinking like crazy). I typed "reboot". After a long period of disk syncing, the system did reboot, though it said / was not dismounted properly (that would be the 8 Gig drive). However, it booted fairly quickly, df reported the big drive was 21% full, and everything was fine and dandy. Also /dev/null seems working right. I tried the same as before (tags 9999999 > /dev/null), and it worked as it was supposed to. So, I can go back to programming again. I am not sure what the heck happened (or for that matter how my /dev/null turned into a file), but as long as everything is working I'm happy. :) Thanks for your help, Adam At 02:27 19-10-2000 +0200, Siegbert Baude wrote: >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 aren=B4t= identical. >>From /dev/MAKEDEV > >mknod null c 2 2; chmod 666 null=20 >mknod zero c 2 12; chmod 666 zero=20 > >Sorry, but I don=B4t know, where in the boot process you would need /dev/null the >first time, so I don=B4t 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 didn=B4t 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
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