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Date:      Sun, 27 Aug 2000 21:35:26 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        gjohnson@gs.verio.net
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: devfs 
Message-ID:  <2013.967404926@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 27 Aug 2000 14:32:19 CDT." <39A96CC3.F47414B4@gs.verio.net> 

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In message <39A96CC3.F47414B4@gs.verio.net>, Tony Johnson writes:
>I'm sure you know this already, but I just want to reiterate.  I have
>done a make world on Fridays and Saturday's Freebsd 5.0-CURRENT.  I did
>a cvsup in the "wee" hours in the morning.  I then did make world in
>/usr/src to rebuild the system, rebuild kernel, and mergemaster -sv. 
>The system should be clean.  Correct me if I am wrong.  If I put "option
>DEVFS" in my kernel , build/install that kernel, my computer will not
>bot up completely.  I will have to enter single user with an errr
>message stating "/dev: no such file or directory"  Mounting of fstab
>filesystems fails.  press enter for /bin/sh
>
>My /dev directory exists.  Once I rebuild the kernel with no DEVFS it
>all works, but I like devfs as it makes all the device files that i need
>for my sound card as an example.

Do you have devfs in /etc/fstab ?  That is *not* needed, /sbin/init
will mount devfs on /dev automatically.

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