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Date:      Tue, 6 Feb 1996 10:27:09 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        kimc@w8hd.org (Kim Culhan)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: devs hosed can't get up
Message-ID:  <199602060927.KAA00368@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960205192723.28653A-100000@w8hd2.w8hd.org> from "Kim Culhan" at Feb 5, 96 07:30:14 pm

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As Kim Culhan wrote:

> I 'accidently' executed MAKEDEV with no arguments and this appears
> to have hosed the devices for sd* -I can't boot the machine.

> Is there any way to recover from this?

sh MAKEDEV sd0s1

Then mount /usr, so you've got the chown etc. binaries available,
rerun the MAKEDEV, and reboot so the mounted devices and /dev nodes
are in sync again.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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