Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 19:56:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu> To: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <jmcla@ocala.cs.miami.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recover from make world goof? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970924195415.5701A-100000@emily.oit.umass.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.970924192440.8555A-100000@ocala.cs.miami.edu>
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Whew, it worked. Thanks very much. I was ready to have a complete breakdown if I didn't get this thing working. Greg On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Joe "Marcus" Clarke wrote: > You need to remount / as a r/w file system. To do this, type mount -u > /. Then you can remake your disk slices. > > -Joe Clarke > > On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Greg Pavelcak wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I got through 'make world' and copied/merged /etc files, remade > > devices with sh MAKEDEV all, but apparently forgot to remake > > some old devices. When I reboot I get > > > > /dev/wd0s1f: no such file or directory > > can't stat /dev/wd0s1f > > > > It puts me into single user mode. Running fsck there just gives > > similar messages. If I cd to /dev and try to make this > > > > sh MAKEDEV wd0s1 > > > > I get > > > > rm: wd0s1: read only file system > > rm: rwd0s1: read only file system > > mknod: wd0s1: file exists > > mknod: rwd0s1: file exists > > > > A sample of ls -l shows my old slices standing out. For example: > > > > brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 24 Sep 24 17:50 wd3a > > > > looks pretty normal, but > > > > brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 0x00020012 Sep 24 17:50 wd0s1 > > > > seems weird. > > > > Can anyone help me? I've been trying to install -current for a week. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Greg > > > > > > > > > > >
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