From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 30 02:30:50 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8159C102 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 02:30:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pd0-x233.google.com (mail-pd0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c02::233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 53AED270E for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 02:30:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f179.google.com with SMTP id ft15so636072pdb.10 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:30:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=RpwC+ujycZ1FhSvxV+cppPT80cg7ha9Uqf8Dq2CQ6Cw=; b=e1qONnvS/uYiNLPhbtz0URJDw9ndhVDibU/qXBum0sAIbnWNZj0ppg5ijwm37birQk CbI5RfYnlNnxpSVBOHC6SsvQYsg2wuR8eLCKPEwDAqEannQhaGUc3B7i+Xr2vNovw3Wb 4DCGGL7sgYRgXjYuGRzpPpqtNtG6dS47LvbeCjT+3jonFj7QiZgU1PGf0aoszlTjW6Cn JUTk0HoZQera90IrvlQjYbq83d0hmonWfq7eXgYidz71UaXL6Ibim6HV0gCaDyIcxU+4 ViWvbxak5LEZF1NVIJP21AoIws4RDm6k4QORcCUpzOrQPzZPpAX4e6RblIVvInLc9q4/ lkGA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.68.245.9 with SMTP id xk9mr989102pbc.123.1406687449781; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:30:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.86.8 with HTTP; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:30:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140729232303.GA86963@slackbox.erewhon.home> References: <20140728201316.GA75558@slackbox.erewhon.home> <20140728232101.GA1425@slackbox.erewhon.home> <20140729070805.GA2594@slackbox.erewhon.home> <20140729185337.GA5146@slackbox.erewhon.home> <20140729204442.GA9077@slackbox.erewhon.home> <20140729232303.GA86963@slackbox.erewhon.home> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 21:30:49 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Problem booting From: Brian Wood To: Brian Wood , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 02:30:50 -0000 On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Roland Smith wrote: > > Yes, like this: > > devfs rule add path '*' unhide > > Otherwise the * will be expanded by the shell. > > I tried it with single and double quotes and like this \* and the output was devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_RADD: Input/output error in each case. Weird. Maybe there is something in the way PCBSD is set up, I don't know. > I've > never used it. > > Is there anything in the PCBSD boot CD/image that you can use to mount the > harddisks in the computer? > > Or could you try booting from a original FreeBSD live CD/memstick? > > I have a FreeBSD 10.0 memstick. The contents of /dev after I pick the Live CD are almost identical to what they were with PCBSD. There's an additional da4a that I guess has to do with the memstick. I don't really see any other differences. I tried the same devfs commands as above and the results are the same as above. I may try to install from the memstick, but would then want to figure out how to get a desktop going. Thanks. -- Brian Ebenezer Enterprises http://webEbenezer.net