Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 14:40:26 -0500 From: Tony Johnson <gjohnson@gs.verio.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs Message-ID: <39A96EAA.6E7DCFB0@gs.verio.net> References: <2013.967404926@critter>
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Sorry for the repeat. I was playing with the sendmail 8.11.0 you guys have provided... But anyway, if DEVFS is in my fstab or not it gets mounted under /dev , as you point out. I guess this is the problem because I have to remove "options DEVFS" from my kernel in single user for my system to boot. Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <39A96CC3.F47414B4@gs.verio.net>, Tony Johnson writes: > >I'm sure you know this already, but I just want to reiterate. I have > >done a make world on Fridays and Saturday's Freebsd 5.0-CURRENT. I did > >a cvsup in the "wee" hours in the morning. I then did make world in > >/usr/src to rebuild the system, rebuild kernel, and mergemaster -sv. > >The system should be clean. Correct me if I am wrong. If I put "option > >DEVFS" in my kernel , build/install that kernel, my computer will not > >bot up completely. I will have to enter single user with an errr > >message stating "/dev: no such file or directory" Mounting of fstab > >filesystems fails. press enter for /bin/sh > > > >My /dev directory exists. Once I rebuild the kernel with no DEVFS it > >all works, but I like devfs as it makes all the device files that i need > >for my sound card as an example. > > Do you have devfs in /etc/fstab ? That is *not* needed, /sbin/init > will mount devfs on /dev automatically. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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