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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!home.ifx.net!usenet From: "Robert L. Hatch" <rlhatch@home.ifx.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to restore /dev from single-user mode Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 10:21:41 +0000 Organization: Internet Effects Lines: 39 Message-ID: <3181F535.167EB0E7@home.ifx.net> References: <nC4933694@longacre.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: hatchman.ifx.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Michael Searle wrote: > > When booting on sd0, after the kernel boot I got these messages: > > swapon: /dev/sd0s2b: No such file or directory > Automatic reboot in progress... > /dev/rsd0a: clean, 9251 free (5 frags, 2379 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation) > /dev/sd0s2g: No such file or directory > Can't stat /dev/sd0s2g > Automatic file system check failed ... help! > Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh: > > After which, I was put into a shell with only the root partition available, > that read-only, and not all commands in that working (such as > /stand/sysinstall. Maybe because they were trying to use other partitions, > or use temporary space.) > > I had been installing some devices for a sound card using /dev/MAKEDEV, and > I think I must have deleted some devices for the HD. So what I want to know, > is how can I make these devices, and what can I do to be able to make the > devices on a read-only filesystem. I would RTFM, but man isn't in the root > partition. I have a list of the contents of /dev: > > MAKEDEV MAKEDEV.local audio audio0 bpf0 cd0a cd0c ch0 console cuaa0 cuaa1 > <clip> > > Thanks! > > -- > Michael Searle - searle@longacre.demon.co.uk The system has booted in single user mode. Type "fsck" and then try rebooting. You can also mount your filesystems with the "mount" command. -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Robert L. Hatch E-Mail: rlhatch@home.ifx.net Internet Effects.... Your Gateway To The World