Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 16:56:55 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysinstall error adding disks.. Message-ID: <3B1FB257.14293.7B2CEE@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3B200F70.382D1B16@iowna.com>
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On 7 Jun 2001, at 19:34, Bill Moran boldly uttered: > Have you updated your system? > The handbook recommends that you do a MAKEDEV all each time you upgrade. > This is because, although the devices are already there, the OS may have > changed something about them, and recreating them brings them up to > date. That could be your problem. > It's just as important as running mergemaster. > > -Bill Yep, I always do that. Actually the first time you run mergemaster these days, it does it for you. (assuming you say yes) I'm a relative FreeBSD newbie, but I believe that when you add a new disk, it may need new device entries for it. The weird thing in this case is that I saw no obvious difference in the /dev directory before or after running "MAKEDEV all". (well no completely new entries. I couldn't do a simple diff on the "ls -l", because all the datestamps were changed for each item too. Someday maybe I'll write a fancier script..) Phil > "Philip J. Koenig" wrote: > > I had the same problem recently, same error message. > > > > So today I went into /dev and did "sh MAKEDEV all". I had done a ls> > > outputfile earlier in order to do a comparison, the ls after doing > > that was *identical*, so I presume no devices were added. > > > > Yet today it seemed to recognize the disk OK, in fact it recognized > > it so well that when I used disklabel (from sysinstall) to mistakenly > > set the mountpoints on the new disk slices to where they were on the > > primary disk (instead of /mnt) I lost all access to this remote > > system, so I get to pay it a visit with a floppy now.. sigh. -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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