Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 14:12:44 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DEVFS vs "regular /dev" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960321141107.29201D-100000@ki.net> In-Reply-To: <199603211856.KAA24142@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > These problems may have been corrected. I do know for certain that certain > /dev/ entries missing causes the system to hang very early in init, and you > can not even get up single user to fix it. This _needs_ fixed badly, you > should be able to > rm -r /dev > reboot > and get the system up single user, if not you have a chicken and egg > problem as to how to repair a damaged or loss /dev tree. > That's what got me started playing with the DEVFS code. I figured I'd try to boot the system using devfs instead of the "normal /dev", and found that /dev/ttyv* wasn't being created, so I couldn't login. I've got my system now to the point that I could do 'rm -r /dev' and be able to book without any problems. Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc
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