Re: Creating /dev/dk* nodes so as to be persistent

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

mueller6724%bellsouth.net@localhost ("Thomas Mueller") writes:

>I wonder if rebuilding/updating the NetBSD system from source would fix the 
>/dev.

A rebuild would do nothing and I doubt that an update helps (but it would
be a good feature). A reinstall (using sysinst) does help.


>I notice the instructions say nothing about booting single-user after 
>installing the new kernel but before installing the new world.

It is not strictly necessary.


>Instructions for FreeBSD advise booting single-user after "make buildworld, 
>"make buildkernel" and "make installkernel".

>Maybe that would be a good idea for NetBSD too?

>I prefer to use NetBSD-current rather than 6.x.

That obviously causes more problems, but nothing like your
current problem which is the result of a bad installation.


>I can "boot netbsd-sandy6.1 -a" at boot prompt and get a prompt to specify 
>root device, but there the system hangs, and won't recognize any keyboard 
>input.

USB as a console doesn't work everywhere.


>I just checked the /dev/directory of that NetBSD-current amd64 USB stick, 
>GPT-partitioned so no NetBSD disklabel problems, from FreeBSD, and only a few 
>things were there including MAKEDEV and MAKEDEV.local , also altq, fd and log.

This looks like someone just unpacked the file sets.