From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 17 23:05:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA26284 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 23:05:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haywire.DIALix.COM (root@haywire.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA26271 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 23:05:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from news@localhost) by haywire.DIALix.COM (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA06642 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 18 Aug 1996 14:04:42 +0800 (WST) Received: from GATEWAY by haywire.DIALix.COM with netnews for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (problems to: usenet@haywire.dialix.com) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 14:59:01 GMT From: mark@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon) Message-ID: Organization: Private FreeBSD site References: <199608170535.AAA08250@atlantis.nconnect.net> Subject: Re: Can't mount / Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199608170535.AAA08250@atlantis.nconnect.net>, randyd@nconnect.net (Randall D. DuCharme) writes: > > 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 If you can boot single user & read only then try: fsck / # In case you need to check the root partition mount -uw / # To remount / as read-write cd dev ; sh MAKEDEV wd0 And then reboot. /mark -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Mark Hannon,| FreeBSD - Free Unix for your PC| mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au| | Melbourne, | PGP key available by fingering | epamha@epa.ericsson.se | | Australia | seeware@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au | | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+