Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 23:17:28 -0600 From: Chris Fedde <cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Val Kilmer <malaclypse@diogenes.ionet.net> Cc: Jesper =?iso-8859-1?Q?Blomstr=F6m?= <jeppe@partitur.se>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bootmanager Message-ID: <199907140517.XAA02165@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Jul 1999 08:10:11 CDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907120808340.6922-100000@diogenes.ionet.net>
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Um. Yes things can get mucked if you go in and mknod(1) by hand on a critical
device file and get the type, major or minor numbers wrong
That's why there is a MAKEDEV script. So that you don't muck a command
line.
MAKEDEV wd0 won't break anything that is not already broken.
chris
Val Kilmer writes:
MAKEDEV doesn't simply make files, it configures entire devices. /dev is a
strange and dangerous place to go walking, which is why I say handle with
care. You may even want to do the 'sh MAKEDEV wd0' from a floppy boot
disk.
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Jesper [iso-8859-1] Blomström wrote:
> Val Kilmer wrote:
>
> > This is REALLY weird. You may want to try doing a 'sh MAKEDEV wd0' as
> > root, but that does seem kind of risky. I'd only really try that if no
one
> > else is able to make any other suggestions.
> >
> > Sorry I couldn't be of more help,
> >
> > Cory.
> >
> > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Maurice Satijn wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > > What are the FreeBSD device names for them? (ex: /dev/wd0s1 /dev/wd
1s1)
> > > > Also, do you have a CDROM attached to this thing somewhere?
> > > > Finally, is your one HD mounted as primary master?
> > >
> > > 1 harddrive (IDE) at which:
> > >
> > > 1 unused (size 63)
> > > 1 primary dos partition 1834M /dev/wd0s1
> > > 1 freebsd partition 1996M /dev/wd0s2
> > > 1 unused (size 3024)
> > >
> > > CDROM is attached, in BIOS is HD primary master, CDROM secondary.
> > >
> > > the unused parts cannot be changed.
> > > > >
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