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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 19:56:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu>
Subject: Re: Recover from make world goof?
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To: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <jmcla@ocala.cs.miami.edu>
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Whew, it worked. Thanks very much. I was ready to have a complete
breakdown if I didn't get this thing working.

Greg

On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Joe "Marcus" Clarke wrote:

> You need to remount / as a r/w file system.  To do this, type mount -u
> /.  Then you can remake your disk slices.
> 
> -Joe Clarke
> 
> On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Greg Pavelcak wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I got through 'make world' and copied/merged /etc files, remade
> > devices with sh MAKEDEV all, but apparently forgot to remake
> > some old devices. When I reboot I get
> > 
> > /dev/wd0s1f: no such file or directory
> > can't stat /dev/wd0s1f
> > 
> > It puts me into single user mode. Running fsck there just gives
> > similar messages. If I cd to /dev and try to make this
> > 
> > sh MAKEDEV wd0s1
> > 
> > I get
> > 
> > rm: wd0s1: read only file system
> > rm: rwd0s1: read only file system
> > mknod: wd0s1: file exists
> > mknod: rwd0s1: file exists
> > 
> > A sample of ls -l shows my old slices standing out. For example:
> > 
> > brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 24 Sep 24 17:50 wd3a
> > 
> > looks pretty normal, but
> > 
> > brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 0x00020012 Sep 24 17:50 wd0s1
> > 
> > seems weird.
> > 
> > Can anyone help me? I've been trying to install -current for a week.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Greg
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
>