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Date:      Wed, 3 Jun 1998 01:06:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        satnam <bsatnam@direct.ca>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can't logon to system anymore
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980603010504.22038a-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3574F362.A95D6F69@direct.ca>

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On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, satnam wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Some guy told me to issue the following command to automatically mount
> the devices on my computer running FreeBSD 2.2.2 "MAKEDEV all" and now
> when I rebooted the computer, I get the following messages:

Whoever told you that was a nut; makedev all has been broken for ages.

> I'm not quite sure what happened; I can't logon as a user anymore.
> 
> 
> Would somebody be kind enough tell provide me with insight as what might
> have happened and how I can fixit.

1.  Boot single user.  (type -s at the boot: prompt)
2.  At the # prompt type `mount -u /'
3.  cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV wd0s1; ./MAKEDEV wd0s2; (repeat for wd0s3 and s4)
4.  `mount -a'
5.  `exit'

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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