Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 18:27:28 -0600 (CST) From: "Wayne M. Barnes" <wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG (stable mailing list at FreeBSD) Subject: MAKEDEV all Message-ID: <199902130027.SAA00285@barnes1.wustl.edu>
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Dear FreeBSD Stabilizers,
The following is a bit flow of conciousness, like it happened.
I believe the conclusion is that 3.0-STABLE's MAKEDEV needs
updating, or the makefiles need updating to update MAKEDEV
Here's the story:
My system won't boot at all. It has been fine, but I took it
down to add another drive.
I can read / and /etc/fstab and get the directory of /dev, all
at the prompt #.
The messages below are correct. /fstab refers to /dev/wd0s1a
/dev/wd0s1e
/dev/wd0s1f
BUT! These files are indeed not there in /dev !
How could I have had the system up at all? Perhaps a
sh MAKEDEV all
that I performed wiped out these devices, and I haven't
happened to have rebooted since then.
[Boot messages ....
can't stat /dev/wd0s1a: No such file or directory
/dev/wd0s1a: CAN'T CHECK FILE SYSTEM
UNEXPECTED INSCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY
Automatic file system check failed ... help!
]
Here's how I got out of this jam:
# mount /dev/wd0s1 /usr # Now the / is writable as /usr
# cd /usr/dev # This is really /dev
# ./MAKEDEV wd0s1a
chgrp: not found # Is this going to hurt me someday?
# ls wd0* # all the slices a-g are there!
# reboot
I don't believe I'll do a 'MAKEDEV all' to repeat this, unless
a developer asks me to suffer for data for the cause.
FreeBSD barnes1.wustl.edu 3.0-STABLE FreeBSD 3.0-STABLE #0: Tue Feb 9 13:14:45 CST 1999
wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu:/usr/src.3.0-stable/sys/compile/GENEONE i386
-- Wayne M. Barnes wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu
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