RE: Help saving my system

No, can you mout devfs in a virtual root created by chroot? I know the devfs
is mounted on the real root, but when i chroot to the /mnt of my old drive
the /dev directory is empty with null-can I re-mount in there?

-Jason


-----Original Message-----
From: slave-mike [mailto:slave-mike_at_rv1.dynip.com] 
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 11:42 AM
To: Jason Dictos
Cc: 'freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org'

did you mount the devfs?

Jason Dictos wrote:
> Hi Guys, here's the scenario:
>  
> 1. Had FreeBSD 5.1 system running.
> 2. Did a cvsup get of stable (that's right, stable, so 4.9) 3. 
> Compiled make buildworld, then did a make build world, and re-compiled 
> with generic kernel 4. Booted into a system which could not mount the 
> file system (expected since its 4.9)
>  
> So now I am trying to save the system and here's where I've gotten to:
>  
> 1. Booted disc 2 of 5.1 cd into "fixme" mode.
> 2. Mounted live cdrom filesystem and then mounted my root drive to 
> /mnt 3. Did a chroot to /mnt so that I would emulate my live system 
> environment 4. Re-did a cvsup of the branch current.
> 5. Ran make buildworld from /usr/src
>  
> Here is what happens when I do that:
>  
> "/dev/null", line 1: Need an operator "/dev/null", line 1: Need an 
> operator "/dev/null", line 1: Need an operator "/dev/null", line 1: 
> Need an operator "/dev/null", line 1: Need an operator "/dev/null", 
> line 1: Need an operator "/dev/null", line 1: Need an operator
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue 
> "/usr/src/Makefile.inc1", line 156: warning:
> "/usr/obj/usr/src/make.i386/make -f /dev/null -m /usr/src/share/mk 
> CPUTYPE=dummy -V CPUTYPE" returned non-zero status 
> "/usr/src/Makefile.inc1", line 158: CPUTYPE global should be set with ?=.
> *** Error code 1
>  
> Help!
>  
> -Jason
>  
> 
> 
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