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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)

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>>>>> 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



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