From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 9 13:44:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA15531 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 13:44:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (passer.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.110.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA15412; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 13:43:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cschuber@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.8/8.6.10) id NAA18751; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 13:43:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199810092043.NAA18751@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> Received: from localhost.osg.gov.bc.ca(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "passer.osg.gov.bc.ca" via SMTP by localhost.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpdh18736; Fri Oct 9 13:42:50 1998 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 Reply-to: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-Sender: cschuber To: Studded cc: FreeBSD Questions , Stable Subject: Re: URGENT HELP NEEDED: un-DEVFS'ing -Stable In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 09 Oct 1998 10:32:09 PDT." <361E4899.965A3B0D@gorean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 13:42:50 -0700 From: Cy Schubert Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have a customer (not me, honest :) who thought they'd "save me time" > and hacked their own kernel, enabling DEVFS on a -Stable system. Now a > kernel not using DEVFS won't boot, so I need to know how to undo their > damage. I'm guessing that it's just a matter of doing a MAKEDEV in > single user mode with the new kernel but I have NO experience with DEVFS > so any help would be very well appreciated. You've got three options, probably more: 1. When the boot prompt is displayed (assuming you have a generic kernel), enter kernel.GENERIC -s, or if your old kernel is still around, enter kernel.old at the boot prompt. Then build a new kernel. 2. Boot from floppy, choose the fixit option and insert either CDROM 2 or a fixit floppy in the appropriate drive; then build a new kernel. 3, Boot from floppy, mount your filesystems under /mnt, chroot /mnt, then build a new kernel. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Open Systems Group Internet: cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca ITSD Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca Government of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message