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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:05:57 +0100
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley585.res.iastate.edu>, ccsanady@iastate.edu
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: (fixed) Was: Filesystem recovery procedures (please help..)
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On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 10:45:08PM -0600, Chris Csanady wrote:
> 
> >After recent recently trying to install the cam patches,
> >I seemed to have been left with a system that simply
> >would not boot.  It would get to the place where it mounts
> >root, and then ti would hang.  I have tried new kernels,
> >cam kernels, recent kernels, old generic kernels, all without
> >luck.  Anyways, I finally just went to reinstall(upgrade) to
> >fix the problems.
> 
> I must have screwed up the device nodes here, I'm not really
> sure what happened though. :\  Seems to work now after removing
> them all and recreating them.  This is annoying to do from a
> fixit floppy, because too many paths are hardcoded into
> MAKEDEV. :(  Anyways I can now boot as well..

I usually chroot from the fixit floppy to my normal setup as soon as
it is 'up enough' to make that possible.  It solves a host of
problems.

Eivind.

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