From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 16 22:37:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA18612 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 22:37:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from atlantis.nconnect.net (root@atlantis.nconnect.net [206.54.227.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA18605 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 22:37:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apollo.nconnect.net (dial199.nconnect.net [206.54.227.199]) by atlantis.nconnect.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA08250 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 00:35:07 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199608170535.AAA08250@atlantis.nconnect.net> From: "Randall D. DuCharme" To: Subject: Can't mount / Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 00:36:42 -0500 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1141 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greetings, Now I did it! I just finished upgrading 3 of my machines to 2.1.5-Release. I put together a fourth one out of some spare parts. It's an early 486 with a single channel IDE controller. I wanted to use up a couple small IDE drives I had but had to leave one out so I could install from an ATAPI CD. I set up the first drive and installed the intended distrubutions to the disk. I then removed the CD and installed the 2nd hard disk. I was trying to follow the instructions in the FAQ about adding a 2nd disk. I got messages that the required devices didn't exist. Upon examining the the contents of the /dev directory, I found the all the devices for wd0, but several for wd1 were missing. Anyway I went to work with MAKEDEV and totally hosed the installation. Now I can only boot to single user mode ?? and read only. The required devices for wd0 are now missing. Can I possibly recover from this one without re-installing the whole thing??? Thanks Randy