From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Nov 4 17:31:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C994737B4CF for ; Sat, 4 Nov 2000 17:31:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BB27F5730B; Sat, 4 Nov 2000 19:31:21 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 19:31:21 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" 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> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" Mail-Followup-To: "Michael C . Wu" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <5.0.0.25.0.20001104151525.04ec7ec0@192.168.1.22> <5.0.0.25.0.20001104151525.04ec7ec0@192.168.1.22> <200011040728.AAA31225@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011040728.AAA31225@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 12:28:00AM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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