From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 22 06:35:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA08993 for current-outgoing; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 06:35:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk (skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.60]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA08978 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 06:35:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk (8.6.13/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA19367 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 14:31:16 GMT Received: from tees by snowdon with SMTP (PP); Fri, 22 Mar 1996 14:26:14 +0000 Received: (from dpr@localhost) by tees (SMI-8.6/8.6.12) id OAA06826; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 14:31:31 GMT From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199603221431.OAA06826@tees> Subject: Re: DEVFS vs "regular /dev" To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 14:31:30 +0000 (GMT) Cc: scrappy@ki.net, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199603211856.KAA24142@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Mar 21, 96 10:56:31 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Rodney W. Grimes who said > > These problems may have been corrected. I do know for certain that certain > /dev/ entries missing causes the system to hang very early in init, and you > can not even get up single user to fix it. This _needs_ fixed badly, you > should be able to > rm -r /dev > reboot > and get the system up single user, if not you have a chicken and egg > problem as to how to repair a damaged or loss /dev tree. > This is *exactly* the problem I reported a few weeks ago where I tried to run with a devfs only system and it hung before getting to single user. This was what promted my complaints about a lack of fixit floppy since I was seriously spammed without one. -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155