Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 19:31:21 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re-Booting new -STABLE Kernel: Failure To Mount Root .. even GENERIC Message-ID: <20001104193121.E10492@peorth.iteration.net> In-Reply-To: <200011040728.AAA31225@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 12:28:00AM -0700 References: <5.0.0.25.0.20001104151525.04ec7ec0@192.168.1.22> <Your <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011041806320.7940-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011041806320.7940-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org> <5.0.0.25.0.20001104151525.04ec7ec0@192.168.1.22> <200011040728.AAA31225@harmony.village.org>
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On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 12:28:00AM -0700, Warner Losh scribbled: | In message <5.0.0.25.0.20001104151525.04ec7ec0@192.168.1.22> Feisal Umar writes: In response to Warner's previous post: buildworld only touches /usr/obj and /usr/src, one can do buildworld in an xterm, screen, or somewhere while doing other stuff, as long as you don't touch /usr/src and /usr/obj in the meantime. | : Will "/dev/MAKEDEV all" have reasonable chances of working? I have it on | : the console now .. waiting for the ENTER keystroke :) | : My only doubts are because I have no idea why I am doing it, which goes | : against what I usually do with production machines. On a hindsight, my | : /dev/MAKEDEV is dated July 18 - Kernel is STABLE-4.1.1 Oct 20. | | cd /dev | sh MAKEDEV all | | should work, but likely won't change a thing unless you've | specifically blown away devices that you need. A 4.1.1-stable to | 4.2-beta upgrade shouldn't need these sorts of things as there haven't | been, iirc, any changes to the devices in the typical boot path. | Might need it for sound but even then it should be ok. IIRC, installworld does MAKEDEV by default, unless you change it in /etc/make.conf. | note, MAKEDEV all won't recreate disk slices, but for such a small | upgrade (in terms of number of big bad changes), you shouldn't need | to. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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