From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 27 13: 5:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dfw-smtpout4.email.verio.net (dfw-smtpout4.email.verio.net [129.250.36.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1E0037B423; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 13:05:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [129.250.38.64] (helo=dfw-mmp4.email.verio.net) by dfw-smtpout4.email.verio.net with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #7) id 13T8fy-0000pQ-00; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 20:05:06 +0000 Received: from [204.1.90.43] (helo=gs.verio.net) by dfw-mmp4.email.verio.net with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #4) id 13T8fx-0003Gt-00; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 20:05:06 +0000 Message-ID: <39A97470.CEFDB6B0@gs.verio.net> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 15:05:04 -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 , current@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs References: <2013.967404926@critter> <39A96EAA.6E7DCFB0@gs.verio.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG One last note, if this is a case for a functional union fs. I'd like to see my mistyping and the system combine things into one device directory so this type of problem will not stop my system frm booting up completely... Tony Johnson wrote: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message