From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 5 17:45:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA16670 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 17:45:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from w8hd2.w8hd.org (w8hd2.w8hd.org [198.252.159.25]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA16657 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 17:45:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kimc@localhost) by w8hd2.w8hd.org (8.7.1/w8hd2) with id BAA28832 ; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 01:44:59 GMT Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 20:44:58 -0500 (EST) From: Kim Culhan To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Devices hosed -how to recover? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Looks like the network went down when I posted the first time, again: I ran MAKEDEV with no arguments by 'accident' and now the devs are hosed: swapon: /dev/sd0s1b: No such file or directory automatic reboot in progress /dev/rsd0a: clean (etc...) /dev/sd0s1g: No such file or directory cant stat /dev/sd0s1g automatic file system check failed... help! I cant seem to use MAKEDEV to make a working /dev/sd0s1 so how can I recover? dead in water.. kim -- kimc@w8hd.org