From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 22 19:12:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CE41152B7 for ; Sat, 22 May 1999 19:12:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA16571; Sat, 22 May 1999 19:12:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 19:12:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Walter Oostendorp Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: fixit and slices/partitions In-Reply-To: <37471F91.C0A8DAFF@home.ict.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 22 May 1999, Walter Oostendorp wrote: > Hello all, > > After upgrading to 3.2 Release I got into trouble and need some advice. > The install from source seemed OK but during a second buildworld it > rebooted and hangs for hours in checking disks, I assume. > > I'm not sure because for some reason 3.2 doesn't show much on the > console during the last stage of booting the kernel. No device probes, > or error messages, just rattling disk noise. > > I took my fixit floppy and tried to find out what was wrong. But how > can I mount my /usr and /var ? Only the device nodes for the slices > are present on the fixit flop. (/dev/wd0s1) Not the /dev/wd0s1e etc. > as I expected. It's an MFS, so you can write to it. Just run MAKEDEV again. ./MAKEDEV wd0s1 > Fsck doesn't show any problems, but disklabel shows all zeros for the > [fsize bsize bps/cpg] part. Is this an indication for my problem ? Those are unused fields. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message