From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 6 01:55:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA12710 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 01:55:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA12705 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 01:55:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id BAA01023 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 01:54:49 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA06172; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 10:47:05 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA19377; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 10:47:04 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id KAA00368; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 10:27:09 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602060927.KAA00368@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: devs hosed can't get up To: kimc@w8hd.org (Kim Culhan) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 10:27:09 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Kim Culhan" at Feb 5, 96 07:30:14 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)