Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 20:36:46 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Dan Yergeau <yergeau@gloworm.Stanford.EDU> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: making device nodes with boot/fixit floppies (3.0-RELEASE) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811082035320.18760-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199811032046.MAA22570@goose.Stanford.EDU>
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On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Dan Yergeau wrote: > > Am I missing something or is making device nodes (for disk slices) > under a "emergency recovery" scenario(*) with boot/fixit supposed to be > this complicated/challenging? Yes, it is. I would recommend using the Live Filesystem CD as your fixit disk if you can; needless to say you have a nearly full distribution available vs. a super-pruned dist on the fixit floppy. > (*) This instance of emergency recovery was brought on by my sloppy > attempt to wire the disk at scsi target 0 to da1 (first bios disk is > an IDE). I did modify /etc/fstab, but I had forgotten to create the > device nodes for da1s2, so even booting from the hard disk in single > user mode wouldn't work for recovery (couldn't get it to remount / > in read/write mode). This is why the kernel make install copies the current kernel to /kernel.old. :) Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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