From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 10 7:58: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D9A937B404 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 07:57:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 15:57:49 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 17HQbT-0001Ai-00; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 15:57:07 +0100 Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 15:57:07 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/rc: cannot create /dev/null In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > When I boot the machine, I got: > > /etc/rc: cannot create /dev/null: read-only file system > > What does this mean? It means your /dev directory is missing that entry. As root, ensure the standard files are there: # cd /dev # /bin/sh ./MAKEDEV std should do it. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Semantic rules, OK? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message