From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 6 06:58:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA04253 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 06:58:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dnh.pce.net (dnh.pce.net [207.1.59.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA04248 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 06:58:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dave@dnh.pce.net) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by dnh.pce.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA03206 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 09:58:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dave@dnh.pce.net) Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 09:58:38 -0500 (EST) From: Dave Hummel Reply-To: davehummel@earthling.net To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Big Problem: MAKEDEV & how to mount root_device rw (solved?) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I tried booting from the generic kernel, did 'mount -u /', and this time it worked. I was able to remake the devices and all is beautiful. My custom kernel appears to be fine with the exception of that one snafu. --------orignal message---------- I made a huge mistake while upgrading to 2.2.8. I had a very old (circa 2.2.5) MAKEDEV script in /dev. sh MAKEDEV created disk entries that are just plain wrong. Right now root_device is mounted -ro on /. 'mount -u /' gives me 'Specified device does not match mounted device'. I want to try to get the proper MAKEDEV and redo 'sh MAKEDEV', but I obviously can't write to /dev. My questions are: How can I get root_device to mount -rw? or better yet: If I'm going about this the wrong way, what is the right way? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message