From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 13 22:18: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [207.204.248.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E10914F5C for ; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 22:18:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost.littleton.co.us [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA02165; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 23:17:28 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199907140517.XAA02165@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Val Kilmer Cc: Jesper =?iso-8859-1?Q?Blomstr=F6m?= , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bootmanager In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 12 Jul 1999 08:10:11 CDT." Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 23:17:28 -0600 From: Chris Fedde Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message __ Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message