From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Nov 4 17:49: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CA6237B4CF for ; Sat, 4 Nov 2000 17:48:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA04270; Sat, 04 Nov 2000 17:48:53 -0800 Message-ID: <3A04BC85.D9BCA2D0@urx.com> Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 17:48:53 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael C . Wu" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re-Booting new -STABLE Kernel: Failure To Mount Root .. even GENERIC 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> <20001104193121.E10492@peorth.iteration.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Michael C . Wu" wrote: > > 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. I checked my build logs and that isn't true on 4-stable. I don't have anything in /etc/make.conf. The following operations were done with MAKEDEV. bworld-20001103-1109.log:rm -f MAKEDEV.8.gz MAKEDEV.8.cat.gz bworld-20001103-1109.log:rm -f MAKEDEV.8.gz MAKEDEV.8.cat.gz bworld-20001103-1109.log:gzip -cn /usr/src/share/man/man8/man8.i386/MAKEDEV.8 > MAKEDEV.8.gz iworld-20001018-1103.log:install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444 MAKEDEV.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/i386 iworld-20001018-1103.log:/usr/share/man/man8/i386/../MAKEDEV.8.gz -> /usr/share/man/man8/i386/MAKEDEV.8.gz iworld-20001103-1248.log:install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444 MAKEDEV.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/i386 iworld-20001103-1248.log:/usr/share/man/man8/i386/../MAKEDEV.8.gz -> /usr/share/man/man8/i386/MAKEDEV.8.gz Kent > > | 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 -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message