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Date:      Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:38:08 -0800 (PST)
From:      R Joseph Wright <joseph@nwlink.com>
To:        Sverrir Valgeirsson <sverre@esek.lth.se>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com>
Subject:   Re: I've lost my devices!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002171833400.768-100000@mammalia.sea>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002170754390.14994-100000@hacke.esek.lth.se>

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On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Sverrir Valgeirsson wrote:

> > Somebody posted a message earlier today stating that one should remake all devices
> > after upgrading to 4.0 from 3.x.  Never do this.  Now, I cannot get into
> > my system because the important devices wd0s3a, wd0s3e, and wd0s3f were
> > not remade.  Can I make these with mknod or something?  Can someone 
> > please help me get back in?  
> 
> I just upgraded and 
> FreeBSD4.0 seems to have a new disksystem. My drives are now called
> ad2s1a and so on.. You probably have to change the /etc/fstab 

I ended up reinstalling and upgrading and I didn't do the foolishness of
recreating all my devices this time and it boots wonderfully. I'm having
other weird problems though. 



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