Re: Help saving my system

From: slave-mike <slave-mike_at_rv1.dynip.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 17:03:28 -0400
you can mount devfs as many times as your system can handle it all over 
the place.

Jason Dictos wrote:
> 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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