From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 27 12:40:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dfw-smtpout2.email.verio.net (dfw-smtpout2.email.verio.net [129.250.36.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5871B37B423; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 12:40:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [129.250.38.63] (helo=dfw-mmp3.email.verio.net) by dfw-smtpout2.email.verio.net with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #7) id 13T8I8-0005yE-00; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 19:40:28 +0000 Received: from [204.1.90.43] (helo=gs.verio.net) by dfw-mmp3.email.verio.net with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #4) id 13T8I8-0002pb-00; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 19:40:28 +0000 Message-ID: <39A96EAA.6E7DCFB0@gs.verio.net> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 14:40:26 -0500 From: Tony Johnson Reply-To: gjohnson@gs.verio.net Organization: Expert Solutions, L.L.C X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs References: <2013.967404926@critter> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry for the repeat. I was playing with the sendmail 8.11.0 you guys have provided... But anyway, if DEVFS is in my fstab or not it gets mounted under /dev , as you point out. I guess this is the problem because I have to remove "options DEVFS" from my kernel in single user for my system to boot. Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > 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. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message