From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 28 13:29:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10460 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 13:29:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp4.nwnexus.com (smtp4.nwnexus.com [206.63.63.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA10442 for ; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 13:29:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wrsomsky@halcyon.com) Received: from gramarye (evt-lx100-ip20.nwnexus.net [204.57.235.20]) by smtp4.nwnexus.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA14007; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 13:29:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wrsomsky@localhost) by gramarye (8.8.8/8.8.7) id MAA04532; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 12:19:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wrsomsky) From: "William R. Somsky" Message-Id: <199803282019.MAA04532.gramarye.wrsomsky@halcyon.com> Subject: Re: 2.2.6 Help In-Reply-To: <000601bd596e$00c49600$0201a8c0@evileye.rf.org> from Mark Ibell at "Mar 27, 98 10:49:17 pm" To: marki@ihug.co.nz (Mark Ibell) Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 12:19:42 -0800 (PST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've just CVsup'd to 2.2.6 Release and thought I might try updating > /etc & /dev as well as doing a standard make world. Oops... I have > FreeBSD on the second partition (wd0s2) but made the entries for wd0s1 > instead. By that I mean wd0s1a ... wd0s1h. Now only the root > partition mounts, and in read only mode so I can't make the proper > /dev entries. So am I like totally f####d or what? I did something similar just last week or so. I don't remember the details, but what I ended up doing was booting off of the distribution cdrom or floppy, going into "fixit" mode, and mounting the "live filesystem" cd to have a functional system without using the hard disk at all. Then I fsck/mounted the root partition off the hard disk on /mnt, and was then able to go into /dev of that disk (now mounted on /mnt/dev) and run the needed MAKEDEV... Hope this helps. ________________________________________________________________________ William R. Somsky wrsomsky@halcyon.com Physicist, Baritone, Guitarist http://www.halcyon.com/wrsomsky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message