Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 23:57:42 GMT From: James Raynard <jraynard@dial.pipex.com> To: valtech@caribnet.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Urgent Help Required Message-ID: <199605052357.XAA08392@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <m0uFrKS-000FQHC@prop> (valtech@caribnet.net)
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>>>>> valtech@caribnet.net (Sean Batson) writes: > > Yesterday I was creating some virtual terminals and did a MAKEDEV all > and accidently destroyed my drivers which load my system. When it boots > It's unable to read the partition wd0s2f, wd0s2b and how the the filesystem > is readonly. How can I mount the root filesystem as read and write and rebuild > those two files? 1. At the boot prompt, type -s to boot in single-user mode. 2. When asked which shell to use, hit return. 3. At this point, the root filesystem will be read-only. 'mount -uw /' to re-mount it read and writable. 4. cd /dev 5 ./MAKEDEV wd0s2f wd0s2b to re-make the devices. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199605052357.XAA08392>