Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 09:37:44 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: ambrisko@tcs.com (Douglas Ambrisko) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DEVFS vs "regular /dev" Message-ID: <199603221737.JAA25344@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199603221731.JAA18126@cozumel.tcs.com> from "Douglas Ambrisko" at Mar 22, 96 09:31:01 am
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> > Rodney W. Grimes writes: > | > | 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. > > One company I worked for, stashed a small kernel, miniroot and dev tree > on the /usr partition. If you made a "mistake" on the root partition > you could reboot from the the usr slice and fix the root partittion. > > It was an interesting idea. And a darn goodone if I might add. I often do this on my freespace floater partition if I am going to go play with things like this... cd /A; dump 0Bf 2000000 - /dev/rsd0a | restore rf - whooommmpp... instant emergeny boot via sd(0,h)/kernel.... -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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