From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 30 19: 4:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCF8F37B638 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:04:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e6V24V127608; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:04:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:04:31 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: carl@bl.echidna.id.au Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I broke my /dev tree, can't fsck /dev/ad0s2a, help? Message-ID: <20000730190431.W21967@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200007310116.e6V1GJc24804@rollcage.bl.echidna.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <200007310116.e6V1GJc24804@rollcage.bl.echidna.id.au>; from carl@bl.echidna.id.au on Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:16:19AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * carl@bl.echidna.id.au [000730 18:18] wrote: > > > I was upgrading 4.-RELEASE to a CVSup'd 4.1 that I sucked down > on Friday last week, and I fillowed the > instructions in the UPDATE file, but I think I made a mistake > rebuilding the devices, as when I reboot I'm getting the > error > > can't fsck /dev/ad0s2a > > >From the shell, I can cd into /dev and see that all the ads0's are > there except ad0s2a. My /etc/fstab has that as /, so it's kinda > odd that I can boot it at all? When I try and MAKEDEV /dev/ad0s2a > it complains that it's a read-only filesystem. > > Can anyone make a suggestion for how I can get it back up? Mount an mfs and create the device node there. :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message