From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 14 5:48:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7650737B400 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 05:48:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cics.co.za (mail.cics.co.za [196.15.196.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8773543E42 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 05:48:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@netchat.co.za) Received: (qmail 18352 invoked by uid 85); 14 Sep 2002 12:51:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mark.igate.org.za) (196.15.196.5) by mail.cics.co.za with SMTP; 14 Sep 2002 12:51:45 -0000 Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 14:46:23 +0200 From: Mark Pearce To: Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.7 upgrade problems Message-Id: <20020914144623.5eb677f3.mark@netchat.co.za> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Netchat X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.1claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > What could help to bring it back ? Getting another /dev/MAKEDEV (where > from?) and remaking the devices ?. Reinstalling the whole OS ?, would > take quite long as I only have the 4.5-RELEASE CD, > It is possible you are using your original MAKEDEV to recreate your device nodes, try copying your /usr/src/etc/MAKEDEV to /dev/MAKEDEV and try MAKEDEV all again, the same applies if you use sysinstall a lot, copy the new one from /usr/src/release/sysinstall/sysinstall to /stand/sysinstall. Hope this helps. Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message