Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 00:49:42 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@ds.net> Cc: Mike Morgan <mikemorgan@hfnweb.com>, "'schwenk@math.udel.edu'" <schwenk@math.udel.edu>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Any 'elders' care to help? [Was: wd0 or wd1] Message-ID: <20000201004941.D24609@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <38967EDF.C54B4C51@ds.net>; from jmutter@ds.net on Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 01:36:15AM -0500 References: <E3E1A9F2A227D311A1EC00902785C1084C2F3D@UTASVEXG001> <38967EDF.C54B4C51@ds.net>
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* James A. Mutter <jmutter@ds.net> [000201 00:27] wrote: > > Mike Morgan wrote: > > > > I did not change anything in /dev per your warning. > > > > I've booted in single user but when i try to fsck -p it tells me: > > Can't stat /dev/wd0s1a: No such file or directory > > I'm also unable to mount any disks. > > > > I did check on the existence of wd0s*, but they do not exist. What i > > do have is > > > > wd0s1 and rwd0s1 > > wd1s1a thru h, and rwd1s1a thru h > > > > does wd0s1a thru h and rwd0s1a thru h need to be created somehow? > > > Ok. At this point you need to end up the following devices: > rwd0s1a .. rwd0s1h > wd0s1a .. wd0s1h > > Problem is that I'm not the one to tell you how to create them. Under > other circumstances I might suggest using 'mknod' to accomplish this but > something tells me it's going to be a bit more complicated this time. > You _might_ be able to do this with disklabel or sysinstall but I can't > promise you that they won't destroy the existing data. At this point > you need the assistance of one of the group elders. > > Good luck though and let me know how it works out. I'm not sure how you arrived at this problem, however if you can mount and fetch a recent copy of the MAKEDEV script from src/etc/MAKEDEV you ought to be able to use it to recreate these device nodes. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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